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GCarter

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My Representative is notifying applicants in my district of his nominations soon and I was wondering, when he submits his nominations to West Point do they show up in the Candidate Portal immediately or does West Point take time to review/process them first?
 
I can only speak to last year's cycle. Our son received nominations from his representative and they appeared in the Portal. He received a letter from the MOC about a week later. Senator noms showed up in the portal prior to letters arriving via snail mail.
 
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GCarter said:
My Representative is notifying applicants in my district of his nominations soon and I was wondering, when he submits his nominations to West Point do they show up in the Candidate Portal immediately or does West Point take time to review/process them first?
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West Point delays notification for 72 hours to allow MOC to personally inform candidate. Many call candidate, some do not.
 
I received a nomination from my senator about 2 weeks ago and nothing has shown up in my portal yet. I got a phone call and an email the next day.
 
jl123 said:
West Point delays notification for 72 hours to allow MOC to personally inform candidate. Many call candidate, some do not.
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You are mistaking appointment notifications with nomination notifications. The MoC's offices each have their own timeline for notifying candidates and notifying USMA. USMA will process and post the nominations after they are received--obviously. So, you would probably know prior to USMA being notified--and then having time to upload the nominations.
 
DrMom said:
You are mistaking appointment notifications with nomination notifications. The MoC's offices each have their own timeline for notifying candidates and notifying USMA. USMA will process and post the nominations after they are received--obviously. So, you would probably know prior to USMA being notified--and then having time to upload the nominations.
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Yup. My bad. The 72 hour delay is for appointment notification.

MOC offices submit nominations online to USMA, which then uploads them to candidate portals. Some candidates see it in portal first, some hear from MOC first. Depends on timing and varies by MOC.
 
Oh worth noting. Sometimes you have a service connected or presidential nom--and NOT a congressional nom--like maybe you do the interview but are not selected. THEN when you are selected for the appointment, the congressman still has 72 hrs to tell you before USMA admissions or USAFA admissions. The candidate is then invited to all the parties and photo ops--but you will always walk around thinking, "No good enough to nominate, but good enough to invite to the farewell picnic...." Not that it happened that way at this house or anything for one of our cadets...
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