Rolling Admissions

The bottom line is USNA commits to letting applicants know their outcome by April 15th. Just because a candidate got an app in a month ago, doesn’t mean it will be reviewed in the order it’s received.

Also it’s important to note, the admissions board is one thing. They concur with the score and recommendation. Essentially they vote. You can find a sample of this even on You Tube. After an app is approved for admissions and the scoring it goes to another group, the Nominations and Appointment Committee. This group is the one that works on slotting. They look at the applicants for a district who received a nom on a slate (assuming the MOC used an unranked slate).Then they start to look at scoring. Who is the top score? Well just because you got your app in doesn’t mean they have everyone on that slate yet. App deadline is 1/31. Noms aren’t even due until the end of January.

This is just one example of the million scenarios. Bottom line, prepare to wait until April 15th. If you hear before, it’s even better.
 
Typically, the review boards desire to evaluate a "set" of completed applications at one time. Thus, instead of meeting at some predefined period of time, e.g., weekly, daily, etc., they wait until USNA Admissions receives a certain number of completed application, say, 15, 20, or 30 applications.
 
Academician said:
Typically, the review boards desire to evaluate a "set" of completed applications at one time. Thus, instead of meeting at some predefined period of time, e.g., weekly, daily, etc., they wait until USNA Admissions receives a certain number of completed application, say, 15, 20, or 30 applications.
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The Admissions Board meets weekly and sometimes twice a week depending on the number of records in the queue and how far along in the cycle. I’ve never heard of there not being enough records to review.
 
Thus, weekly versus bi-weekly -- a rolling board. Thanks for the great information.
 
Academician said:
Thus, weekly versus bi-weekly -- a rolling board. Thanks for the great information.
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The members of the admissions board for a given cycle are senior folks who have significant "day jobs" and crowded schedules.
Blocking out a given time/day every week is not too difficult and gives them something to plan their schedules around whereas setting
up sessions on an ad-hoc basis is a lot more challenging. If you ever served on a deployed operational staff, the "battle rhythm" of specific
meetings/teams is set up in a similar manner.
 
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