<p>Hello all, I'm a HS Junior and just have a couple of questions about how to obtain a JROTC Nomination. West Point Admissions says "Your senior instructor must fill out and submit a Request for ROTC Nomination (Form 5-497) to USMA and a USMA Admissions Interview Report (USMA Form 21-8) to be considered for a nomination.". </p>
<p>How exactly does this work, I searched the admissions website very thuroughly and couldn't find anything about how to obtain this 'Form 5-497' or 'Form 21-8' for my Instructor to fill out, How is he supposed to get this to send in? And when should this be done? </p>
<p>Most other MOC nominations and such aren't even given out until around November or December of senior year, so if I got this done now wouldn't that give me a big advantage over others as my file would be completed way before anyone elses given I complete the rest of it very timely since WP doesn't look at your application until everything is complete?</p>
<p>I'm still going to apply for a MOC and Senators nomination but how much will this JROTC Nom. help me? Has anyone had experience with any of this that they can shed some light on? Thanks</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, your Army JROTC unit has to be an "Honor Unit with Distinction" or a Distinguished Honor Unit (I forget what it's called exactly.) However, I do seem to remember that something like only 5% of the units in the world qualify. Your Senior Army Instructor should know how to get the forms.</p>
<p>You may be confusing JROTC with ROTC, I'm not sure if the nominations from those are in the same category. Just ask your instructor.</p>
<p>Hey yomtvraps thanks for the quick reply. Here is the actual paragraph from the admissions site regarding all JROTC and ROTC Nominations:</p>
<p>"Applicants enrolled in a Junior or Senior Army Reserve Officer Training Corps programs are eligible for a nomination in this category. Application should be made through the Professor of Military Science or the Senior Instructor to the Director of Admissions, U.S. Military Academy. Your senior instructor must fill out and submit a Request for ROTC Nomination (Form 5-497) to USMA and a USMA Admissions Interview Report (USMA Form 21-8) to be considered for a nomination. Applicants enrolled in JROTC programs of another branch of service are eligible only if that school has been designated as an Honor Unit with Distinction."</p>
<p>Note that it says either Junior or Senior ROTC, so the case is the same for both and also note at the end that you only have to be an Honor Unit with Destinction if your enrolled in JROTC programs of another branch of service. Which I'm in Army JROTC so it wouldn't matter, even so I believe my unit is an honor unit anyways. And unfortunately I've tried talking to my instructor about it and he isn't being very responsive and he doesn't seem to know anything baout the process, so looks like I'm going to have to get everything for him and just get him to fill it out and sign it.</p>
<p>Hello tn48th. I am currently a senior in high school and I have already recieved my appointment through a JROTC nomination. All of the information I am about to post has come from my own experiences and information from my Regional Admissions officer and local Military Academy Liason Officer. </p>
<p>To recieve the two forms, contact your regional West Point admissions officer, give him the name and address of your SAI, and the officer will send these forms to your SAI. Your SAI will then fill out these forms and send them back to West Point. I completed this around september/october-ish, and I bet that West Point will not want to see these forms before august at the earliest.</p>
<p>Furthermore, about 600 people get JROTC or ROTC nominations each year. They pretty much give one to anyone who applies for it. HOWEVER, only about 80-100 of these people at the most are allowed to recieve an appointment from this group, so it is IMPERATIVE that you still apply for congressional nominations.</p>
<p>I was going off of memory (5 years ago.) I'm guessing I had the Honor unit thing in my head because I started off in Army jrotc, but transferred to a school with Navy jrotc.</p>
<p>Your instructor isn't being very responsive? That's unfortunate, but a preview of how your future Army life could possibly be. If you want to get anything done in the Army you gotta stay on people like white on rice...</p>
<p>Like yoyo24 said, contact West Point admissions and they will square you away.</p>
<p>Thanks for the Excellent replies guys, so with the more nominations you have obviously the better your chances of getting appointed right? cause not only are you elgible to get an appointment from the JROTC nomination group but also from the people who received MOC Nominations and whatever else right? Also can I not go ahead and get it out of my way just so it can go ahead and be put in my file? That way it'll also look good for SLS? if they even look at the rest of the file at that point</p>
<p>I don't know if they'll just want you to "get it out of the way right now" as you've been thinking. I didn't, waiting until september/octoberish, and it was okay. But on the other hand, they might let you do it. If I were you I'd e-mail your regional admissions rep and ask him what you should do.</p>