Medical DQ, Waiver authority question

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SwimPatriot

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Good Afternoon,

Would it be worth trying to email the person assigned to review my USNA application if I am competitive enough for a medical waiver? Secondly, do they want to see your entire application submitted before checking for competitiveness or is it largely academics and ECA's that they care about to determine competitiveness in these scenarios?
 
There will be Uber competitive candidates that aren’t reviewed for a waiver until late in the game.

There are waivers reviewed, that may not be offered an appointment.

Appointments offered early are often LOA’s, with medical (or a nom) being the CONDITION required to turn the LOA into an appointment.

So, in a nutshell, your medical/waiver does not have to be settled before you are considered for an appointment. No need to email. It is still very early. Slates are not due from nom sources. Applications are not due for a while yet. Unfortunately, the name of the game is ‘simply’ waiting, at this point.

If you are antsy, and feel comfortable, maybe reach out via PM to @GoCubbies regarding your DQ.
 
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Let the process (and the Admissions people) work. Though opaque to us on the outside, there are parallel and intersecting processes throughout the cycle. It is not a linear process, except in the sense that there is a beginning and an end, and there is a progression for each and every candidate throughout the annual cycle.

Focus on what you can control. Difficult, I know, but mental discipline is always a good skill to hone.
 
Being a 'competitive' candidate isn't a 'get out of jail for free card' regarding medical issues. There are some medical issues that will result in a DQ for any service academy, regardless of how 'good' your resume is. None of us work for DODMERB, but that is the general way I would approach this. You don't get 'points' for having an excellent application that can be used to offset a medical issue. I doubt it matters to DODMERB if you are an otherwise amazing applicant if you have certain disqualifying medical issues.
 
These exams with civilian medical and optometry providers are not free. They are paid as a contractor. That cost gets billed back somehow - presumably to the SAs and ROTC units requesting the info from DoDMERB. Or maybe DoDMERB has the budget. An any rate, tax dollars are spent on these exams from some entity’s govt budget.

If the SA looks at an application, and it’s pretty darn clear that candidate is not going to be a player for either prep school or direct entrance to SA, then they will not waste govt funds. My sense is they don’t set that med review impossibly high. If they see people with truly abysmal high school grades, course selection, standardized test scores, pitiful CFA, a goshawful essay littered with inanities and horribly written in a perfect storm of bad-app-ness, then that’s an easy no-go to DoDMERB.
 
justdoit19 said:
There will be Uber competitive candidates that aren’t reviewed for a waiver until late in the game.

There are waivers reviewed, that may not be offered an appointment.

Appointments offered early are often LOA’s, with medical (or a nom) being the CONDITION required to turn the LOA into an appointment.

So, in a nutshell, your medical/waiver does not have to be settled before you are considered for an appointment. No need to email. It is still very early. Slates are not due from nom sources. Applications are not due for a while yet. Unfortunately, the name of the game is ‘simply’ waiting, at this point.

If you are antsy, and feel comfortable, maybe reach out via PM to @GoCubbies regarding your DQ.
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How do you pm someone on this? I'm very new to this forum.
 
SwimPatriot said:
Awesome thank you so much, do posts mean creating threads or a simple message like this?
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I clicked on your screen name. You now have 14 posts. You had 13 when I wrote the above post. You just need to hit 7 days as a member.
 
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