NASS Issue. Please Help!

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So I was accepted into NASS, but I wanted to switch sessions. The due date for payment/medical forms was March 4th. I requested to switch sessions and received this email from the officer in charge of the seminar.

"...I am sending this email to you because we are in receipt of your request to switch sessions.

With that being said, we made sure to put you in a session that you annotated as being available so your request will be taken into consideration, but promises can not be made. Slots are being filled on a weekly basis for all session so I hope you understand that swapping can become difficult.

We will notify you of your switch approval by sending you either ANOTHER selection email with a new forms deadline or we will notify you that your request has been denied. We will give you the opportunity to maintain your selection if you wish but will shortly forfeit your spot if you choose to decline the session. Timeline is TBD but it will be processed as soon as possible.

If you have any questions please reply all to this email! Thank you and look forward to seeing you this summer!"


This was on March 2nd. I never heard from him again and on March 4th I figured they weren't going to get back to me so I did my payment. My dad was out of the house and I needed him to fill out the medical form(his signature, etc...) but he did not do it until March 5th, the day after it was due. Then, I received this email.

"Thank you for submitting your Medical Release form for participation in Naval Academy Summer Seminar. You will only hear back from this email if there is an issue with your form."

What? Is there a problem or not? Why is the wording so ambiguous? Anyway, I still have not heard from the Officer in charge after asking him(very respectfully) why I did not hear back with either a rejection to switch or a confirmation with a new due date. I handed it in so late because I did not want to pay then get my session switched, because it says not to pay until they confirm your session switch...

Am I not going to the NASS? Am I out 550$? Why is the communication so poor?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

 

[retiredradar]

So I was accepted into NASS, but I wanted to switch sessions. The due date for payment/medical forms was March 4th. I requested to switch sessions and received this email from the officer in charge of the seminar.

"...I am sending this email to you because we are in receipt of your request to switch sessions.

With that being said, we made sure to put you in a session that you annotated as being available so your request will be taken into consideration, but promises can not be made. Slots are being filled on a weekly basis for all session so I hope you understand that swapping can become difficult.

We will notify you of your switch approval by sending you either ANOTHER selection email with a new forms deadline or we will notify you that your request has been denied. We will give you the opportunity to maintain your selection if you wish but will shortly forfeit your spot if you choose to decline the session. Timeline is TBD but it will be processed as soon as possible.

If you have any questions please reply all to this email! Thank you and look forward to seeing you this summer!"


This was on March 2nd. I never heard from him again and on March 4th I figured they weren't going to get back to me so I did my payment. My dad was out of the house and I needed him to fill out the medical form(his signature, etc...) but he did not do it until March 5th, the day after it was due. Then, I received this email.

"Thank you for submitting your Medical Release form for participation in Naval Academy Summer Seminar. You will only hear back from this email if there is an issue with your form."

What? Is there a problem or not? Why is the wording so ambiguous? Anyway, I still have not heard from the Officer in charge after asking him(very respectfully) why I did not hear back with either a rejection to switch or a confirmation with a new due date. I handed it in so late because I did not want to pay then get my session switched, because it says not to pay until they confirm your session switch...

Am I not going to the NASS? Am I out 550$? Why is the communication so poor?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

DS applied to NASS last year saying he would take any session. He heard fairly quickly that he got into session one. He immediately emailed asking to be switched to session three. We paid the deposit and I don't think he heard he was switched til May. You will most likely receive your money back if you can't go to the session you were assigned to. Hurry up and wait! Don't give up the ship. It's still early.

 

[USNAhopeful2025]

my daughter received the same letter from the officer in charge - we did not pay for summer seminar on March 4th, bc my. daughter cant attend the session they assigned her - we read it as if they cant change her then she can pay for that session and attend once she receives the email. You are not out the money - my son in 2016 got into summer seminar and then did a CVW before NASS and decided it was not for him - so we had already paid for the summer seminar before we went to CVW and when he got back he emailed the officer in charge and told him he was not going to attend NASS and they gave us our money back.

 

[Old Navy BGO]

Am I not going to the NASS? Am I out 550$? Why is the communication so poor?

You, and all candidates, should recognize that you are part of a much bigger picture-- you are one of thousands going through a process, and Admissions simply doesn't have the manpower in place to treat each applicant individually. While there is a NASS Officer in Charge designated, I would expect that is a collateral duty, and that most of the process is being handled by the Admissions staff who are also in the very heart of the main Admissions cycle.

Most correspondence is purposely generic-- the notice said they would get back to you as soon as possible. Perhaps a better wording is a soon as possible from their perspective. Keep in mind that accommodating requests for changes to Session is not their priority. Didn't you indicate you were available for the Session you were assigned to ? I understand things change, but the burden of the is on you, and Admissions isn't going to jump through hoops just to acomodate one persons request.