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Honestly, moving on and being excited about plan B is healthy! And the way to go!
Moving on to Plan B is great idea but remember the door is not closed until they tell you the door is closed.Also here and still waiting and hoping,... Sadly DD is moving on and in the mode to workout Plan B.
I keep telling her there is still a "Chance"- She just rolls her eyes - king of sad,
Is WL clearing based on your state specifically due to open slates from declines/medical clearance issues? For instance I know of two from our state who declined their offers to USNA. If that opens up a spot, does admissions team look to the whole WL or more specifically those WLers from that state?For those waiting . . . as you know, the date to accept / decline an appointment was May 1. USNA now has to compare number who accepted appointments vs. number of positions in the plebe class. There are probably a few folks still awaiting medical clearance, so that has to be considered as well.
USNA then determines if they will take anyone from the WL. If the number of accepted appointments is equal to or greater than the number of slots in the plebe class, no one would come off the WL and notifications would go out pretty quickly. If the number of acceptances is lower than the number they can admit, they then turn to the WL to fill those open slots. Since the WL isn't ranked at the outset, they have to look at the entire WL to decide whom to take from it. As part of this process, they notify WLers of TWEs.
This process can take several weeks -- the process generally takes longer if there are more open spots to fill than if very few, but that's not a hard and fast rule. Also, as noted, there could be a few candidates awaiting medical clearance (for example, had surgery and are waiting to be cleared by the MD for full activities). If they don't clear, those spots might open up quite late. However, by that time, the number of the WL who haven't been notified one way or the other is also very small.
Let me start by saying: I don't know. My understanding is that it's merit-based, in that they start with the "best" candidate on the WL. However, we all know that "best" is in the eye of the beholder. States could play into it, as could districts / slates. IOW, if there were only a handful of appointees from a small state (e.g., WY, ND), and several of them declined, I could see USNA wanting to take one or more from the WL for that state. Likewise, if a particular MOC district had only one appointee who declined and there are zero / very few mids at USNA from that district, USNA might look to the WL for someone from that district. But it's somewhat of a black hole for BGOs and candidates . . .Is WL clearing based on your state specifically due to open slates from declines/medical clearance issues? For instance I know of two from our state who declined their offers to USNA. If that opens up a spot, does admissions team look to the whole WL or more specifically those WLers from that state?
Good to see what is hopefully only the beginning of movement from the Wait List!!My son's portal just changed ....... see my other thread.
Nice!WL is NOT a ranked and stacked, only merit based list. I
Keep in mind, Admissions considers the traditional "yield" when making offers, ie. they actually make more Offers of Appointment than they actually need to fill the Class, so they don't start pulling from the wait list until the yield is below their expectations.So if the numbers don’t change much there can be about 120 spots for the Waitlist candidates. I remember some got off the Waitlist on I-Day! “Don’t Give Up the Ship.”