<p>hi, i am a jr. in high school right now. I currently live in the Northern Virginia/ Washington D.C. area. Just want to know how fierce the competition is for getting accepted to the summer seminar, and getting a nomination to USNA. thanks</p>
<p>It really determines how serious you are about going to Summer Seminar. Only 1,800 out of 12,000+ students can go. If you are serious about going, you should do anything in your will power to achieve that goal. If you are not accepted, at least you know you tried your best and you didn't give up.
It really determines on how populated your congressional district is and how many people are applying for a nomination.But no matter how populated your area is, you should still try your best. That's all the advice I can give you mate.</p>
<p>For someone in lives in, say, Maine, Summer Seminar is very easy to get into because school is still in session and people up here generally don't care about academies. If you're in a very USNA-oriented area like you are, however, you may have a tough time securing a spot from your geographic region.</p>
<p>The same goes for appointments and nominations. In areas where the military isn't popular, nominations aren't hard to come by. Thus, the 10 people each MOC nominates from northern New England may not be as good as the 10 from Virginia who had to compete against several hundred applicants. </p>
<p>Therefore, you could have the strongest of the 10 nominations from a Maine senator and be appointed, yet not be strong enough to be nominated if you happened to live in Maryland.</p>
<p>Bottom line is, you have to be qualified for both NASS and USNA wherever you live. However, those in low populated states that have a very anti-military population will have an easier time being appointed.</p>
<p>VA is a very competitive area for Service Academies.</p>
<p>Yes, VA is competitive. However, if you look at the numbers, you'll also see a very high number of appointees come from VA. </p>
<p>You'll never know if you don't apply.</p>
<p>Also, not being selected for NASS doesn't doom your chances for USNA just as attending doesn't significantly improve your odds. It's a great program and I strongly encourage interested candidates to apply and attend. However, many people who ultimately get an appointment aren't NASS attendees for various reasons.</p>
<p>It's really not worth obsessing over how competitive VA may be as it's something beyond your control. Do your best to make your application as strong as possible -- something you CAN control -- and see what happens.</p>
<p>It might actually be more difficult to get into summer seminar from VA than it is toget an appointment.</p>
<p>Remember that the Academy considers SS, in great part, to be a recruiting/advertising tool for the Academy. Thus, significant consideration is given to geographic diversity of those accepted for attendance.
If you come from a school or area that has delivered many mids, you might have less of a chance for SS. The reasoning being that you are knowlegeable of the Academy and able to visit w/ relative ease.</p>
<p>Because of the different focus for SS, your attendance at SS has virtually no bearing [probably more accruately stated as "no bearing"] on selection for the Academy.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if USNA Summer Seminar apps are "rolling admission"....or do they wait until all apps are received at the end of April?</p>
<p>We appled to USMA Seminar also and heard back that we were admitted in < 1 week.</p>
<p>This would be good to know for planning purposes.</p>
<p>rolling ... or at least "batching" ... definitely not all at once.</p>
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<p>I was told the same thing by a member of the admissions board.</p>
<p>And in either case, it seems exceptionally challenging. I'm always duly impressed with appointments from NVA.</p>
<p>Here's good news NASS applicants, they've added a few more slots this year. I believe it was ~ 1800 spots for previous years. Wishing all of the best as your pursue your goals!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/nass.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/nass.htm</a></p>
<p>"Midshipmen run Summer Seminar with oversight by active duty Navy and Marine Corps officers. Over 1,950 students from around the world attend this fast paced program each year."</p>
<p>The young lady across the street from us found out a week before her chosen session that she was going. The must be a waiting list but she had no idea that she was even on it! She loved NASS but decided on a different path and is not a freshman at UCS's Film school</p>
<p>Don't be nervous because you live in VA. My son was accepted to NASS and to USNA (he's 15 weeks away from graduation/commissioning).</p>
<p>I am a Northern VA resident and am anticipating an appointment, I have received a nomination from one of my senators and I am hoping for the best. My only advice would be to stay well-rounded, meaning, take challenging courses and maintain involvement in sports, clubs, that sort of stuff. I also did Summer Seminar and it was tough for me, especially Sea Trials. If you go, you'll learn something about yourself and what you're capable of. I did.</p>