@MidCakePa I do not want to start a fight here, I am sorry if my question offended you. It was a simple question that I thought would be easy to answer. To respond to me aggressively is not needed, I qualified my question as just being curious. I am glad your daughter "has a burning desire to serve her country", and I hope that if not all, then the vast majority of applicants to the SA's feel the same way! When you say that "I would think if someone wants to go to college, they have a particular school they want to attend" would be true for my sons, and their friends. Do they apply to more than one, yes, but it is based more on type of major they want and percentage of placement in jobs in their field, and they definitely have a first choice of school, but I was just curious as the different services generally offer different types of careers, the AF- flying, Navy- ships, flying, or being a Marine, Army-shore based, or combat. Just thoughts, I can totally understand applying to the AFA and USNA as they overlap in certain areas.
I was not talking about "taking something away from others". I am not a child, but a Veteran who supports ANYONE who desires to serve. My only reason for asking this "atomic" question was I just wanted to get people's feelings about why they would apply to every SA out there. I was not criticizing anyone's choice just curious. And you and
@justdoit19 I question your response that being on three appointment lists at one time does not hold up another applicant. I have looked at some of the threads here for USNA Class of 2023 appointments, USMA Class of 2023 appointments, USMMA Class of 2023 appointments, and the majority of the early appointees were "undecided" until recently. And it can and does effect other candidates because if the applicant has a "primary" NOM from a MOC they get an automatic appointment by virtue of type of NOM. And why if a candidate asked for a "primary" NOM would that candidate not immediately accept the offer of appointment? If it is because they were not offered a "primary" NOM to the school they really want, then it all makes sense, but that's why I asked the question, because no one says "I applied to all three academies because I didn't receive any "primary" NOM's, again I fully understand, I was merely curious the reason for not accepting an offer of appointment right away. And once the SA offers appointments to fill out the incoming Class, they will place others on the NWL or whatever the academy calls their waiting list. So by holding the offer of appointment till the end is not right or wrong, I was just wondering "why"?