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The Admissions Office has received all your information and the Admissions Committee has reviewed your application. You have been found fully qualified and placed on the national waiting list. Several hundred cadetships will be filled from this waiting list with most appointments being made between 1 March, 2024 and 1 May, 2024. You are still competing for admission and should continue to update your record with significant achievements in academic, leadership, and extracurricular and athletic activities. Additionally, please ensure your school provides your seventh semester transcript to the Admissions Office as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. You will be notified immediately of any change in your status. Final selection from the waiting list may be made only a few days before the class enters. Thank you for your continuing interest in West Point, and good luck in your efforts to gain admission.
If it's true that this forum represents 10%, then there have already been 1,000 candidates offered appointments. There are 100 appointments posted on this forum.
Looking into Civil Prep schools-JIC.
I'm sorry, I don't have any advice for his situation. Hopefully he gets appointed. If he doesn't, you are doing the right thing trying to put a plan in place. Search the forums and see what help you can find.
I will help him search out Norwich. Thank you for the response. As long as he doesn't dive for a 4 year civilian college he can Try again to WP team....all my thinking though. Thanks again!
If he has an LOA and has completed all of the requirements, he will be appointed. Congrats!!
If DS was accepted to a top 5 engineering program, Id say he had an amazing application! Those are harder to get in than ivy league schools! Sorry WP didn't work out. That is surprising. As the dad of a HS junior who will be applying soon, can you share your thoughts? I know all it takes is someone from your district to be more qualified, but he had a senator nom, as well. Also, other academy parents said to not worry... someone with such a strong app, the academy will "find" a nomination for them. I can't imagine WP so competitive that they didn't at least wait to see if there were other nom sources out there. He received a definitive turn down letter, I'm assuming. These are the stories that frighten me, just bc it doesn't seem to make sense.
Not directing this to the OP, but there are many great candidates that get turned down every year. We can’t see behind the curtain to understand why. We can measure the many accolades and standardized test scores, leadership, gpa, etc..that we know , but that’s only part of the equation.
I got a QNS letter late in February. I talked with my FFR and she said that the race isn't over until R-day when everything is reset. I'm going to take the SAT one more time but I'm prepared to move on. My advice hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Continue to update your app, good luck!
Thank you, we are very proud of him! We expected that if he lost his slates that he would be competitive off of the NWL. He was placed on the NWL, but two weeks after that he received an official turn down letter in his portal. We saw another candidate turned down from WP the same day who already had an appointment to USNA. He contacted admissions to ask what his downfall was. They stated that he was found fully qualified, but his district was extremely competitive this year. They encouraged him to apply next year. My assumption is that he lost his slates and due to the competition on the NWL, he was too far down on that list as well. I have heard rumors that this is a very competitive class this year, I think that's true.
I am the OP and I agree with your statements. I hope to encourage others to keep pushing because you may think your application is good enough, but it might still fall short.
@Texark147 Follow up with your DS's RC and ask if they would consider him for the AOG/West Point Scholarship. There's a bit of info on the forums about it, or you can go to the WP website to learn more.