What is the difference between an appointment and a direct appointment?
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There are several variations to consider. In general, an appointment and direct appointment would mean the same thing for most people posting on this board. In general, this is referring to a candidate who is a graduating High School senior and is not re-applying for a second or more time. I could be missing some, but there are typically 2 types of appointments you could see, but really 4 different outcomes
Conditional Appointment - generally the student is missing something in the file, but the school is not anticipating any problems and assuming medical or fitness are passing scores upon receipt.
Unconditional Appointment - no outstanding questions - this is a clean offer and they are ready to receive the candidate on indoc day.
The two other types of "offers" we could see here would be to a prep school. The candidate is seen as highly desirable, but may need an additional year of paid junior college to be ready for indoc day. These offers are not really an "appointment" per say, but candidates who successfully complete the year of paid/sponsored prep school have historically received an "appointment" in the following year. Many on this board would view a prep offer with similar joy to a full appointment because it is effectively 1 year delayed gratification.
Some may consider there to be two additional types of "appointment" and those would be -
Conditional Prep Offer
Unconditional Prep Offer