First Wave of Non LOA Appointments

DS got two 3Q letters (identical) in portal today, is this due to having two nominations? (USMA, Senator and Congressman nominations). Same letter about being placed on the NWL, etc...
 
I would also think candidates with an LOE would be towards the front of the line for review.
 
Good luck to each and every one of you guys and gals hoping for appointment to USMA. Here is a glimpse of what awaits you!

 
Is the first wave flexible? By this, I mean is there a hard cap for the number of appointments given in the first wave? I have an LOA but my waiver was pending until today (yay!). I'm wondering if it's too close to Jan 30th for me to be added to the wave.
 
@sunnytrail please, don't stress this. We have no way of knowing if/when they went to press w the final decisions on what will be sent out later this week. No one can tell you that. Of course you want to be in this delightful first group but you may have to wait a little a longer. Appointments will start drifting out weekly.
 
DrMom said:
@sunnytrail please, don't stress this. We have no way of knowing if/when they went to press w the final decisions on what will be sent out later this week. No one can tell you that. Of course you want to be in this delightful first group but you may have to wait a little a longer. Appointments will start drifting out weekly.
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Okay, thanks! You're right. Deep breaths!;)
 
sunnytrail said:
Okay, thanks! You're right. Deep breaths!;)
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Go PT. You’ve got an LOA, right, so you’re in a good place.

Think about what you can actually do right now and have control over it - yes! PT! Set a new goal or try a new skill (have fun with SEAL pliometrics, be a pull-up stud or push-up machine) and build up core strength, stamina, and bleed off stress while you’re at it. Learning to coach yourself through times like this is a critical survival skill for your adult life, especially the military.

Oh - and SEAL box breathing before any challenge or to calm your mind. I just did it in the doctor’s office today while awaiting a test outcome. Works every time.
 
Capt MJ said:
Go PT. You’ve got an LOA, right, so you’re in a good place.

Think about what you can actually do right now and have control over it - yes! PT! Set a new goal or try a new skill (have fun with SEAL pliometrics, be a pull-up stud or push-up machine) and build up core strength, stamina, and bleed off stress while you’re at it. Learning to coach yourself through times like this is a critical survival skill for your adult life, especially the military.

Oh - and SEAL box breathing before any challenge or to calm your mind. I just did it in the doctor’s office today while awaiting a test outcome. Works every time.
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Thank you for the advice, much appreciated!
 
IN04MOM said:
I know waiting is impossibly hard, BUT it does not matter if you get selected in the first wave or the very last wave - either way you are a cadet just the same as the cadet next to you. Please don't worry about first wave so much. First wave is only approximately 1/3 of all of the offers that will go out.

First wave will be made up of a mix that NO ONE can definitively tell you. It can be principal nominees who have their file completed, clear slate winners where it will not matter what else the other candidates submit in the next week (think less competitive districts where they don't even usually fill the slate), LOA recipients that didn't have their file complete super early, etc. etc. etc.

You could get passed up in the first wave because someone else on your slate gets a higher WCS than you but get in on a later wave because they declined the appointment or West Point found another way to get you in. Being in the first wave does not make you more qualified to succeed than any other cadet. If anything it gives you more time to worry about the packing lists and getting the right color underwear, correct shoes, etc. And that is not a blessing either.

My advice - watch for the first wave to come out. The first few days of them will be people who were called by their MOC (not everyone will get this call), the weekend wave will either be people who live close to New York and got their BFE in the mail or ones who obsessively check their portal and found out when it changed, the next week ones can either be got their BFE early the next week or are part of the next week congressman calls.

The important thing about the first wave as that you know they have started. They will send out acceptance letters every week after the first week and you will have no clue which way you will find out or when you will find out. Try your best to be patient until the BFE to TWE show up and know that either way you are highly qualified to even make this far and life is not over. I have heard that nearly 1/3 of most incoming classes are not direct appointments. If this is what you really want and you don't get in - there is always next year.
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Do they send out TWE as well with the first wave? Do those just go out bit by bit as well ?
 
NO NO NO! NO TWE's Don't think about that.
Right now the order of merit list is being built...the categories are being finalized.
There won't be enough 'evidence' to send TWE's for months.
Again, we are at the start of a long, slow season of admissions. You may not know for sure either way until 1 May. (Even then you may be waiting.)
A BFE is great.
No news is good news. It will become harder to remember come mid-April. (Schrodinger's Applicant...but if you are 3Q w/ a nom, the odds are in your favor.)
TWEs will come much later.
Focus on the positive now.
Keep Faith. It is a marathon.
 
Actually, the kids are full applicants...they are 'Schrodinger's Candidates.' They are a cadet candidate or they are not a cadet candidate. There is no way to know.
 
DrMom said:
NO NO NO! NO TWE's Don't think about that.
Right now the order of merit list is being built...the categories are being finalized.
There won't be enough 'evidence' to send TWE's for months.
Again, we are at the start of a long, slow season of admissions. You may not know for sure either way until 1 May. (Even then you may be waiting.)
A BFE is great.
No news is good news. It will become harder to remember come mid-April. (Schrodinger's Applicant...but if you are 3Q w/ a nom, the odds are in your favor.)
TWEs will come much later.
Focus on the positive now.
Keep Faith. It is a marathon.
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Your the best Mom ever
 
Thanks Bob. (It is "You're--not just a Mom but a 'Dr Mom'--so as a professor I am obligated to correct everyone's grammar--as a mom, doubly obligated.) Thank you. <3 That was a very sweet thing for you to say.❤
 
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