I don’t think it works quite like that. My understanding is roughly a third of each slot goes to every commissioning source. The number of slots made available to midshipmen at USNA and ROTC also ebbs and flows year to year based on Fleet requirements.
mine has a presidential. coach told him that due to that he won't find out until march/april.....
It does NOT work like that. NROTC slots are completely separate from the academy, and we get about the same number of slots as them each year. OCS gets their own slots too. They aim to have roughly equal representation from commissioning sources in the community
Hmmm that’s interesting because most of them figure out earlier because a lot of presidential nom candidates get those nominations before everyone else, hence why they get appointments earlier. But I’m sure some do figure out later
My DD (class of 2027) already had a plan B lined up, when she found out she had an appointment to the USNA on April 12th. Hang in there and don't lose hope.Hi guys, I wanted to come on here and ask if anyone was in the same boat as me. I am currently loosing any hope of getting into USNA as a re applicant. At this point I have accepted my fate and am getting more serious with a back up college nearby and to try OCS. I know that not all appointments have been sent out yet, but I haven't heard anything from my nomination source, who has recently given students their appts, and my status on the portal is still pending. Is there still hope for this, or should I just start to unfortunately move on? I just need some advice at this point.
That is exactly one day before I found out I got rejected. Congratulations to your daughter!!! And thank you for the advice. I have a college advisor meeting on Friday to make Plan B a reality.
Yeah same here, my plan B is USCGA, but see her DD got an appointment April 12th! So don't lose hope!!
Yes for Sure!!! This comment gave me a some more hope for this!
Heck, if rounds are going downrange and ordnance is falling from the sky, you won't care what school you went to. Heaven forbid that happens.
Been there, but you're correct, the printing on the degree on the wall doesn't come to mind I'm sure.
Don’t worry! You’ll get in soon!There’s absolutely hope, most years 150-170 people post on this forum, and we’ve only seen like 80 so far? I would say that’s a good indicator that appointments are certainly not finished. It is a possibility that the population of people using service academy forums compared to people applying to usna in general is skewed this year, but that’s highly unlikely. I have a 1570 SAT, a 3.8 gpa and I’m from a rural area where only two people applied to usna. And no one from my district has heard back. So I would just say, have hope until you can’t, it’s better to think positively and then face disappointment than to never have had hope at all or expect the worst and then actually get it.
Devil doc, “auioooooooo!!”
Nor, if you have to make that call
Fair enough. You guys know better with respect to that. I was going by what my kid was sharing from his experience in both NROTC and at the Academy. USNA service selects before NROTC, and the bar seems to be set lower for the ASTB for the Academy versus NROTC. It might be the same actual value (4/5/4) on paper, but everyone in his unit said that if you aren't up near the 7/7/7 range, you are probably not going to get a slot. While at the Academy, it you hit the min, you have a solid shot. Maybe because there are more NROTC students each year than Academy kids??
Definitely no authority either, but DS and his NROTC unit learned their service assignments in late September 2023 - isn't that before the academy mids?