There are multiple action sequences happening, with some fluidity in May and June, some with specific applicant decision or notification dates:
️Offers of appointment to USNA, to be accepted or declined.
️Conditional offers of appointment to USNA, awaiting resolution of a required element, such as a medical waiver.
️Offers of a place on the appointment waitlist, to be accepted or declined, and await notification if pulled or released.
️Notification of not being offered an appointment this year.
️Offer of appointment to NAPS.
️Offer of USNA Foundation scholarship.
️Offer of a place on NAPS waitlist.
️Offer of 2 ibuprofen for my head as I try to track all this and lay it out. No doubt I have missed something. Think Ben Hur and the chariot race in the coliseum.
Bottom line: USNA Admissions is in the homestretch in May and June, fitting the final puzzle pieces. No doubt many who are offered appointments will wait to submit their decisions on 1 May itself, if that is their decision deadline. Admissions will have a much better idea on 2 May, after they do some collating, how much leeway they have to pull from the appointment waitlist. Some candidates will be teetering on knife edges of various offers. It will all be worked out, a spot and a candidate at a time, until victory is declared and the cycle effectively closes. They will be down to onesie-twosies at some point.
And since I don’t think I’ve managed to work in vintage Ben-Hur before, enjoy the clip, with my salute to Admissions with the white horse team.