When politics, power and money are involved anything is possible. That said it’s not supposed to happen and I would question why it would. Most MOCs don’t even bother to interview the applicants for their nominations…they have committees and assigned staff persons. Is it POSSIBLE that the son/daughter of a big political donor might get favorable treatment? Sure…but how many children of very high income families would choose to go to a service academy and why wouldn’t the MOC just give those very few applicants their nomination or tell them to reapply next year after a year in a civilian college that their families could certainly afford? Bottom line…again…is the prep schools are NOT used to park applicants for MOCs until they have another slot available.