USNA Class of 2027 Waiting and Speculating

Capt MJ said:
You wouldn’t cause any issues, but I think it might be good to have a confirming conversation. If you have a Presidential, and they have already charged the maximum allowed appointments to that source, but could switch you to another category for consideration which perhaps hasn’t charged the max appointments allowed…well, that might create unexpected flexibility. Let them know about this development, clarify you can only be eligible for one category, and ask if there is any advantage to be gained to ask for placement in the other nom category.
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JINX. . . you owe me a coke
 
OldRetSWO said:
JINX. . . you owe me a coke
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At least. I had my reply in draft, got distracted by something, came back, saw the “new messages have been posted” alert, and realized I hadn’t hit Post. Good parallel thinking in the “why not” vein.
 
Time for a little energy boost here in the Ready Room, just dropped something appropriate in the Appointments thread.

This is always uplifting to post here.

Don’t lose track of the big picture - what’s really important in life is family, friends, health, integrity. If you don’t get into a SA, it is not Armageddon with your life in flames. There are opportunities and paths everywhere.


 
Curious if anyone knows if the "approval board" meets more regularly in the last 2 weeks to ward off the crunch time date? I was always told they meet every Thursday, but I have to speculate that the frequency has to increase as the runway gets shorter.... (I get the whole "blackbox" process and who the heck knows smart-aleck responses :) , just ruminating) :)
 
TrustingtheProcess said:
Curious if anyone knows if the "approval board" meets more regularly in the last 2 weeks to ward off the crunch time date? I was always told they meet every Thursday, but I have to speculate that the frequency has to increase as the runway gets shorter.... (I get the whole "blackbox" process and who the heck knows smart-aleck responses :) , just ruminating) :)
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@OldRetSWO mentioned awhile back they were meeting more frequently (maybe twice a week, I am not sure if I am remembering that correctly).
 
cbasalt1 said:
PM me and I can send you the emails for the USNA Medical Waiver Authority
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We found an email for USNA Admissions Medical…they responded pretty quickly and told him that he was in the queue to be reviewed for a medical waiver and that he would be notified by DoDMERB and email if they required any additional documents.
 
TrustingtheProcess said:
Curious if anyone knows if the "approval board" meets more regularly in the last 2 weeks to ward off the crunch time date? I was always told they meet every Thursday, but I have to speculate that the frequency has to increase as the runway gets shorter.... (I get the whole "blackbox" process and who the heck knows smart-aleck responses :) , just ruminating) :)
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Yes, I believe frequency has been increased, given the cycle timing, as has been posted recently.

There are many parallel and intersecting processes handled by various functional teams within Admissions. After a board meeting reviewing admissibility, no one jumps up to speed to a terminal to start entering appointments to show up in portals within hours. Decisions must be made, nominations must be managed, yield statistics checked (appointments offered versus accepted), class-building objectives checked, appropriate senior leadership approvals obtained, final quality control checks performed, administrative tasks accomplished, elected officials informed, notifications organized for release, portals updated.

And, there are always more fully qualified candidates with noms than there are seats in the class.
 
TrustingtheProcess said:
Curious if anyone knows if the "approval board" meets more regularly in the last 2 weeks to ward off the crunch time date?
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I am confident the Admissions Board meets as necessary to review all applicants in a timely mannner, and would even go out on a limb and suggest that the Admissions Board has already reviewed substantially all applicants. However, a CAPT MJ alludes to..there is a lot more to the process. Once the Admissions determines a Candidate is "qualified", then Nom's and Appointments has to determine who, among the qualified is "most" qualified within each nominating slate . This is not a simple one dimensional process, as Noms and Appointments must evaluate overlapping Nom sources to determine how to best build the class,
 
Old Navy BGO said:
I am confident the Admissions Board meets as necessary to review all applicants in a timely mannner, and would even go out on a limb and suggest that the Admissions Board has already reviewed substantially all applicants. However, a CAPT MJ alludes to..there is a lot more to the process. Once the Admissions determines a Candidate is "qualified", then Nom's and Appointments has to determine who, among the qualified is "most" qualified within each nominating slate . This is not a simple one dimensional process, as Noms and Appointments must evaluate overlapping Nom sources to determine how to best build the class,
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Thank you for the insight.
 
Capt MJ said:
Yes, I believe frequency has been increased, given the cycle timing, as has been posted recently.

There are many parallel and intersecting processes handled by various functional teams within Admissions. After a board meeting reviewing admissibility, no one jumps up to speed to a terminal to start entering appointments to show up in portals within hours. Decisions must be made, nominations must be managed, yield statistics checked (appointments offered versus accepted), class-building objectives checked, appropriate senior leadership approvals obtained, final quality control checks performed, administrative tasks accomplished, elected officials informed, notifications organized for release, portals updated.

And, there are always more fully qualified candidates with noms than there are seats in the class.
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Thank you for the insight. Always valuable commentary. I appreciate that.
 
My fellow travelers, for those keeping track of announcements our DD received fully qualified offer to NAPS this afternoon. She is elated as she wanted a year to prepare for USNA plebe year. Of course, she accepted. She went from CPR to offer, no LOA or waitlisting. Also, no email notification that her status had changed on the portal.

Now to notify NROTC and Virginia Tech of her changed of plans. Best wishes to all your DDs and DSs and will be following your adventures going forward so we may learn from our new Navy family. May God bless you and all your loved ones.
 
Alchemist said:
My fellow travelers, for those keeping track of announcements our DD received fully qualified offer to NAPS this afternoon. She is elated as she wanted a year to prepare for USNA plebe year. Of course, she accepted. She went from CPR to offer, no LOA or waitlisting. Also, no email notification that her status had changed on the portal.
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! 🥳🥳🥳 What a huge accomplishment and so happy to hear the update too. Sometimes folks just drop off (understandably) but it’s nice to read for all of us still here in April!
 
Alchemist said:
My fellow travelers, for those keeping track of announcements our DD received fully qualified offer to NAPS this afternoon. She is elated as she wanted a year to prepare for USNA plebe year. Of course, she accepted. She went from CPR to offer, no LOA or waitlisting. Also, no email notification that her status had changed on the portal.

Now to notify NROTC and Virginia Tech of her changed of plans. Best wishes to all your DDs and DSs and will be following your adventures going forward so we may learn from our new Navy family. May God bless you and all your loved ones.
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Woo Hoo!!!!! Congratulations!!!! Thank you for sharing your great news tonight. So happy for your DD and whole family!🎉🥳
 
Capt MJ said:
Good point - that occurred to me earlier that a Presidentisl may already have been in play, depending on dad’s status.
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@Capt MJ @OldRetSWO I spoke with admissions today and was informed it is indeed too late in the cycle to add a nomination but if I need to apply again next year, I can apply for both the Presidential and the Children of Disabled Veterans. Information that may be passed along possibly.
 
2027_AVIATOR said:
@Capt MJ @OldRetSWO I spoke with admissions today and was informed it is indeed too late in the cycle to add a nomination but if I need to apply again next year, I can apply for both the Presidential and the Children of Disabled Veterans. Information that may be passed along possibly.
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Thank you for circling back - very thorough of you. I am sure someone will learn from this, and now you know the answer directly from the primary source. Well done. It was worth a shot.
 
Alchemist said:
My fellow travelers, for those keeping track of announcements our DD received fully qualified offer to NAPS this afternoon. She is elated as she wanted a year to prepare for USNA plebe year. Of course, she accepted. She went from CPR to offer, no LOA or waitlisting. Also, no email notification that her status had changed on the portal.

Now to notify NROTC and Virginia Tech of her changed of plans. Best wishes to all your DDs and DSs and will be following your adventures going forward so we may learn from our new Navy family. May God bless you and all your loved ones.
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So exciting!!!!! Congrats to your daughter and your whole family!!!
 
Seeing all the optimism and fantastic news the past couple of weeks is encouraging and at the same effect, terrifying. I’ve been CPR since early Nov and each day is more anxiety wrenching than the last. I check my portal more times a day then I’d like to admit, and I’m honestly surprised I haven’t been given a decision(Rejected or accepted), like what could possibly make it so close. I’ve spent my time touring plan b c and d and getting more anxious about just paying a deposit on a college; even more upsetting is I have a CVW on the 13th and would be crushed to be rejected and still fly up and take the weekend haha. Anyway GOODLUCK y’all.
 
JBmalone2568 said:
and I’m honestly surprised I haven’t been given a decision(Rejected or accepted), like what could possibly make it so close.
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I think it is important to note that it may not be a "close" call for you as to if you are fully qualified. Many applicants each year are and fail to receive an appointment. Since it is competitive, there are many downstream effects from things that have nothing to do with you or any individual candidate. For example: Imagine there is a LOA candidate who has "won" a Senator's slate. This candidate is waiting on a DODMERB waiver but fails to get that waiver and so cannot be appointed. USNA will need to fill that hole with another candidate. Let's imagine that you are the second-best candidate in a congressional district in that Senator's state. They want you, but they wanted the other candidate more. In this case, we can imagine that the first-ranked candidate on your MOC slate is now charged to the Senator's slate, now moving you up to the prime position for an appointment from the MOC slate. Congrats! Except you tore your ACL in the 400 hurdles on Tuesday, so now it is on to the third-ranked member of the MOC slate, or onto another MOC slate entirely... Lots of moving parts as you see. Many reasons to wait until one is certain to be either TWE or BFE...
 
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