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What you are saying is that without the nomination, they would not have gotten the appointment in the first place, so you are crediting senator x with the appointment when it is charged to senator y? Is that right? Am I finally getting it? (clouds are parting and a ray of sunshine is breaking through...I think)
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That's not quite what I meant. Out of the 1500 or so appointments, only 535 of those in total are charged to MOC's. So, on MOC Brown's nomination list you might have:</p>
<p>Cand 1 - wins the district, gets appt, charged to MOC Brown
Cand 2-10 - academic LOA's, athletic recruits, prepsters, et al. All of whom require a nomination, but all of whom have a guaranteed appt if they get one. Not charged to MOC Brown.</p>
<p>Another way to look at it is this: if all 10 of an MOC's nominees are also academically, medically and physically qualified (tripleQ), then the Academy MUST admit at least one, but CAN admit any or all of the others. In addition to academic LOA's, athletes and Napsters, there is some number of appointees who are chosen by the Academy from the pool of nominated individuals just to round out the class according to the needs of the year.</p>
<p>Also, if a given MOC doesn't nominate anyone who is TripleQ'd, the Academy will draw from other MOC's slate of qualified candidates to fill the slot. (That sounds strange to those of us in highly competitive districts, but it happens!)</p>
<p>I don't know if other states handle it differently, but in our state the appointees are never informed about who is being "charged" to the MOC and who was a lucky runner-up chosen by the Academy for another reason. My kid was nominated by both our senator and congressman, and was invited to the receptions, etc. hosted by each. Multiple other USNA appointees for the same year were in attendence at each of these events and each was treated with the full honor of being one of that MOC's appointees. To this day we do not know which of the two her appointment was charged to or whether she was selected by the Academy to round out the class for some other reason.</p>
<p>My son received a letter from the Senator who had nominated him congratulating him on his appointment. Since the Representative did not notify him, we can only assume that his appointment was based on the Senatorial nomination.</p>
<p>Since there was no reception, or any other form of public acknowledgement, we have no way of knowing how many nominees from each slate actually received appointments.
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<p>I hope this doesn't muddy the water any more but I noticed that momof1 spoke of MOC, then asked about the Senator. There are two houses of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Representatives are often called Congressman (as in "I'll write my Congressman") but Senators are also Members of Congress. </p>
<p>So, when anyone on this board or from the Academy refers to your MOCs they are talking about your Representative and your two Senators.</p>
<p>Momof1, if you already had this figured out please excuse the lecture.</p>
<p>You guys have been a great help!!! So let me get this right. I am a Div 1 caliber football player. So if I were to get an LOA for football, I would still be able to get in, even if among all my disctict's MOC slots (house and senate) one is open and I am able to get one of 10 noms for the slot?</p>
<p>In addition to your MOC's slots, the academy has access to 10 VP nominations and up to 50 superintendent nominations. Like Bossf51 said, it they want you, they will find a slot and nomination.</p>