USNA Class of 2027 Waiting and Speculating

Went this weekend with my DS this weekend. He got really sick. He said everyone in his company was company was coughing. They cancelled PT - cuz everyone was sick. I don't know if other company's were cancelled. Other than that he really liked it. He has an LOA from USMA since August. Has had has his USNA completed since labor day, but nothing. Can someone expound upon what was posted above -- everyone on the slate has to be evaluated first?
Sorry to hear about the cough being passed around! My DS mentioned lots of coughing too but it didn't seem to impact their activities. He did not do the morning PT but not because it was cancelled for the company - he was told drags were not allowed to join. So he got a little extra rest instead.

Based the admissions presentation on Friday morning, I had the impression that admissions is rolling and applications get ongoing review but that most decisions get made when MOC nominations come in. Not at all sure that is right though.
 
Yep. Rolling. DS has an appointment based on his Presidential nom. His MOC interviews are this week and 1 in November.
 
Went this weekend with my DS this weekend. He got really sick. He said everyone in his company was company was coughing. They cancelled PT - cuz everyone was sick. I don't know if other company's were cancelled. Other than that he really liked it. He has an LOA from USMA since August. Has had has his USNA completed since labor day, but nothing. Can someone expound upon what was posted above -- everyone on the slate has to be evaluated first?
Eventually, every candidate’s application is reviewed for admissibility by USNA’s Board. Candidates must be found medically (DoDMERB), physically (CFA) and scholastically/academically qualified and evaluated using their scoring method (unpublished). The Noms & Appointmrnts people work in parallel and intersecting ways to build the class, deciding which fully qualified candidate off an elected official’s slate will get an appointment, what 100 of the likely several hundred fully qualified candidates with Presidential noms will be offered an appointment, same process for all nominating sources, waiting for college re-applicant first semester grades to come in, waiting until late spring to see how the NAPS and sponsored prep applicants do, working back and forth across the applicant pool to figure out where appointments will eventually be charged, how many appointments to offer to get the yield of acceptances that fall within class target range, who they want to give an LOA to - a complex and time-consuming task. If you look at the annual appointment threads over the years, you will see a bell curve with dips and spurts.

There are many who have their applications complete in early fall and see a decision in April. It usually seems those with elected official noms start seeing news in January, though elected officials who get their slates in before their deadline might see some appointment offer activity on their slate before the end of the year.
 
I received a LOA on October 1. I have passed every test and check except for my nomination which I will interview for in December and find out by the end of the year. Are my chances high enough to be able to make plans to attend next semester or is there still a good chance I could not receive an appointment?
Congrats on your LOA! You received it because someone believes you are a competitive candidate and that’s a good thing. Keep preparing for your nomination interviews, unfortunately not receiving one is a dealbreaker BUT have faith. Keep on running and running some more, that will make you less prone to injuries and it will take away your mind from worrying to much about other things.
 
If someone has a presidential nom, why would they need MOC noms?
I believe one nomination is all you need, as a matter of fact in our state they communicated among themselves and if you received already one, the other one will decline you. Which is fair to the others applying for nominations.
 
For what it’s worth, I’m currently attending a CVW with my son, and the Dean of Admissions told us that they are meeting every Thursday to review candidate files.

Also should add, this place is amazing! Praying I get to return here with my son on June 29!
Amazing is an understatement. Wait til’ you get there! Prayers are very helpful Best of luck to your son
 
More noms do give the Academy admissions team more flexibility in assigning a candidate to a nomination source. Perhaps they do a nomination shuffle for someone who has two or three nomination options at the end of the cycle to give another candidate a spot. It's a shell game meeting all the nomination slots available.
 
Yep. Rolling. DS has an appointment based on his Presidential nom. His MOC interviews are this week and 1 in November.
I'd hope that the MOCs interviewing your DS would look at the offer of appointment and either spend the time interviewing another deserving candidate or awarding a nomination to someone who might not otherwise get one. I'd be somewhat surprised to see a MOC decide to waste his/her capital (in the form of a nomination) on someone who already received an early offer of appointment.

From my perspective, at a minimum, your DS should inquire with USNA if he should still seek congressional nominations and/or notify the MOCs interviewing him that he has already received his offer of appointment.

Good luck to your DS and congratulations to him and your family on the offer of appointment!
 
Dean of Admissions told us that they are meeting every Thursday to review candidate files.
True, but meaningless from a Candidate perspective. See my explanation earlier in this thread , but bottom line the Candidate (and now the BGO) have no idea when the Board reviews a particular candidate and whether they are Admissions Board qualified. There is no need to check your portal at 5 pm on every Thursday afternoon between now and April.
 
Not that I want to encourage people to disclose information they aren't comfortable disclosing, but I will say that last year it was extremely helpful to know what states the appointments were coming from and when. Without boring everyone with details, the timing of when decisions went out for our state ended up being very valuable information for the current reapplication process. So, anyhow...just encouraging everyone to include state information as long as there isn't an over riding reason not to. It can be useful information in some instances.
 
Not that I want to encourage people to disclose information they aren't comfortable disclosing, but I will say that last year it was extremely helpful to know what states the appointments were coming from and when. Without boring everyone with details, the timing of when decisions went out for our state ended up being very valuable information for the current reapplication process. So, anyhow...just encouraging everyone to include state information as long as there isn't an over riding reason not to. It can be useful information in some instances.
For appointments with non-elected official noms such as the Presidential, the state makes no difference. Those come from all over in no set pattern. As per usual, the first drips from the tap are Presidential or other service-related.

We’ll just leave it up to poster’s choice with no pressure either way.
 
Pro Tip: Candidates should have a professional voice mail message and prompt set up on their phones. And listen to them.

As we get closer to the holidays, elected officials who have gotten their slates in early and have been informed of appointment offers, may call the candidate directly to inform them.

Elected officials are usually given some advance notice of the appointees in their District or state, before USNA updates the portal. They MAY choose to call. It can be coordinated by a staffer in advance, or the phone could ring, and it’s Senator Gripngrin live with good news. Or a staffer may call the parent, and a surprise phone notification is set up at the school in the principal’s office, with people to clap and take a photo. Runs the gamut.
 
I'm doubly confused as to why T-37IP's son would need a MOC nom if he's already appointed?
He signed up for the thread and said undecided.

If you have an appointment secured, I think collecting noms is wrong.
I completely agree!
I am going to share what we learned. My daughter reached out to both her BGO and her admissions counselor after receiving her offer of appointment to USNA asking whether she should withdraw her congressional nomination applications. She was told to keep her congressional nomination applications open. She was told she would not be hurting another candidates chances.

My 2 cents. For those unsure of where they want to be or holding out for their #1, you don't want to take yourself out of the running for your #1 choice just because your #2 or #3 made you an offer. You want to keep everything in play until you know. I personally think the academies like to see how you stack up against your competition.
 
I am going to share what we learned. My daughter reached out to both her BGO and her admissions counselor after receiving her offer of appointment to USNA asking whether she should withdraw her congressional nomination applications. She was told to keep her congressional nomination applications open. She was told she would not be hurting another candidates chances.

My 2 cents. For those unsure of where they want to be or holding out for their #1, you don't want to take yourself out of the running for your #1 choice just because your #2 or #3 made you an offer. I personally think the academies like to see how you stack up against your competition.

If USNA is not your first choice, but you have secured an appointment to USNA - you should keep keep going for your first choice nomination.

If it were my son asking for advice - if he had an appointment to USNA, I would tell him to withdraw his application for nominations for USNA.

Would he be hurting someone else’s chances? Most likely not. But a competitive district could have an 11th person not receive a nomination that might be good enough in the national pool.
 
If it were my son asking for advice - if he had an appointment to USNA, I would tell him to withdraw his application for nominations for USNA.

Would he be hurting someone else’s chances? Most likely not. But a competitive district could have an 11th person not receive a nomination that might be good enough in the national pool.
And you are counter to what USNA admissions suggests. There are hard limits to the numbers of people they can admit on Presidential, NROTC, etc noms and just maybe there are additional people in THOSE categories who could be admitted if USNA can use the MOC nom for candidate X.
 
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