How easy is it to get a nomination to USMMA? I have not even applied to KP and don't plan on it, but I got a nomination from my MOC a few days ago saying that I was nominated....I find this strange as this was my last choice on my nomination app (first choice USAFA, then USNA, USMA, and finally USMMA)... Anyways, good luck to you all!
I did not find your post offensive. That is because I have struggled with the same question. Why would any congressperson give a nomination to someone who has no intention of applying?
But I have seen it over and over. High School kids rank the SA's because they are told to do so on the congressperson's application for a nomination. Yet many candidates have no intention of completing the application for any academy other than their first choice. The congressperson's staff believes they are doing you a big favor by giving you a nomination to choice, 2,3 or 4?
Since Congressional nominations are given before the academy application deadlines, there is no effort by the MOC's staff people to actually confirm that a complete application has been received. A terribly flawed system, in my opinion, and you are the newest example.
I believe that all high school kids should be able to apply to any and all service academies without the added hurdle that injects additional caprice and arbitrariness, that each academies admissions office already is full of.
The reasons to have a political nomination in order to have your application reviewed, that at onece upon a time made sense, for a lot of different reasons, is archaic and obsolete in this day and age.
Only the Coast Guard Academy has it right as we speak, in my opinion.
Also, you sound like a weak candidate to any service academy. I would suggest that you make good use of the errant nomination you received to USMMA, and complete the application and possibly be offered a seat at the prep school in New Mexico. It would be the best decision you ever made, and you would not even have a clue that it was, until years from now.