<p>funtime- may i ask what state you reside?</p>
<p>A Presidential Nomination is sufficient for an appointment. However, there are more than 100 Presidential nominations each year, but only 100 appointments are given from the nominations. In other words, the number of Presidential nominations out numbers the number of appointments that come from those nominations. Remember the criteria for a Prseidential nomination allows for a large number of nominations to be given.</p>
<p>Even if you are an LOA, do not count on the Presidential. Continue to pursue all nomination sources for which you are eligible. If perchance, you receive an appointment before the MOC process is completed, please check with the CGO prior to eliminating yourself from the MOC process.</p>
<p>USNA usually does not utilize the full 100 quotas for Presidential appointments.</p>
<p>We are in Eastern NC.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all with LOA for 2013. I am curious about something, though. According to the Admissions Calender, the first Admissions Board meets September 11, 2008. How then, does a candidate receive an LOA prior to that date?</p>
<p>LOA is a flueky(is that a word) thing. My Mid got one and five days later got a DoDMERB DQ. Went through H##l to get the DQ overturned. Don't depend on the LOA, it is conditional. Continue with the process and stay in close touch with your B&G. He helped us a lot and we couldn't have done it without him.</p>
<p>This is my first post on here. I got my LOA just today! I'm so excited.</p>
<p>/cyberfive</p>
<p>congrats schwimmer!!!</p>
<p>AF6872 How long a process is overturning a DoDMERB DQ? Where do you begin? Thanks,</p>
<p>Where in PA?</p>
<p>A coach at the academy who recruited my son called him last week to tell him that my son passed the review board and that he would be getting an LOA. How long before my son receives the letter? He will feel a lot better once he has something in writing and will feel more condident about telling other schools that he will not be sending in an application.
Assuming that he gets a nomination, can he count on getting an appointment? He wants to be very sure before he lets go of the other schools that want him. He was so excited to hear the news last week. How have other people handled this?</p>
<p>First of all, congratulations to your son! As the mom of a USMMA plebe, I can't address how long it will take for the actual piece of paper to arrive. But I would strongly urge your son not to stop all of his other applications. There are too many things that can go wrong. My daughter got an LOA in January from KP, but seemed to have a never-ending round of DODMERB remedials. </p>
<p>The joke is to wrap the kids in bubble wrap until they report. But the truth is that things happen. Kids get hurt. I didn't breathe easily until D walked through those doors and didn't get sent back out. How awful would it be to get injured 2 weeks out and have absolutely no back up plan? </p>
<p>Best of luck to your son!</p>
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<p>A LOA is a "conditional" appointment, and usually the "condition to be satisfied" is a nomination.</p>
<p>If he obtains a nomination, then he can count on getting an appointment. </p>
<p>Before then, anything can happen.</p>
<p>The Letter of Assurance is a very good sign that the USNA wants him and will do whatever they can to help him get a nom if he cannot secure one from his MOC. But until the appointment letter arrives, I would advise him to continue the apps to the backup schools.</p>
<p>Having a backup school in place up to IDay is a good idea. A student at our high school was appointed to USMA and came down with mono shortly before IDay. He had to defer a year. Fortunately for him, he had a back up school in place. Another possiblility is an injury that precludes walking or marching. Please don't paint me as a pessimist, just one who has been there and knows that accidents and illness can happen.<br>
Play it safe and keep a plan B available even if you have an LOA.</p>
<p>USNA69,
If you have an appointment, why do you need to contact the CGO (whatever that is??) before eliminating yourself from the MOC process? Doesn't the fact that you have an appointment mean you no longer need a nomination? I am wondering because my son received an appointment last week, and that was before he had completed the MOC process (he had the applications completed, but didn't get to the interview stage which aren't done until December). He had two nominations (a Presidential and an Honor School) so I am assuming one of those was used, thus negating the need for a nomination from your MOC. Is this not correct?</p>
<p>See post #23....</p>
<p>I am not clear on what you mean by an "honor school" nomination-</p>
<p>One nomination is all that is needed-
Presidential nomination definately counts- as does a VP Nom, MOC nom, or one from the SNAV-</p>
<p>an appointment is not granted until a nomination is secured-
a letter of assurance, however, can be issued pending the completion of the remaining of the process, nomination included.</p>
<p>If your candidate has a pres nomination, and indeed has received an official appointment, then there is no need to obtain further nominations from you MOC. Just be sure you are clear what he has is an appointment and not a LOA- some get the two mixed up.</p>
<p>And a reminder ...LOA's and Appointments are each escalating levels of commitment on behalf of USNA. </p>
<p>The LOA pledges to the candidate that he will receive an offer of appointment IF all remaining but uncompleted steps in the process are successfully completed in a timely manner. </p>
<p>The APPOINTMENT confirms that indeed all those steps have been successfully and sufficiently (in the eyes of the Admissions Review Board) completed and an invitation to join the ensuing entering class is extended.</p>
<p>Neither is a guarantee of admission/Induction however. </p>
<p>The LOA may not result in an appointment in event of failing to successfully complete the outstanding step(s). And even the Appointment will be rescinded in the event the recipient becomes unfit due to poor academic performance, bad behavior, medical injury, or failed physical condition prior to Induction.</p>
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<p>An "honor school" nomination falls under this category:</p>
<p>US</a> CODE: Title 10, Section 6954 (b) (4): Midshipmen: number</p>
<p>20 nominated by the Secretary of the Navy, under regulations prescribed by him, from the honor graduates of schools designated as honor schools by the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, or the Department of the Air Force, and from members of the Naval Reserve Officers Training corps.</p>
<p>Honor schools are those high schools with an Honors JROTC program.</p>
<p>Luigi--Yes, you are once again correct. My son is in a high school JROTC unit that is designated an Honor Unit with Distinction, and thus he received an Honor School nomination along with the Presidential nom (as the son of an active duty Marine). </p>
<p>Navy2010--We are pretty sure he has an appointment as the first line in the letter states, "I am pleased to offer you an appointment to the United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 2013." Along with the letter was a blue award binder that had a photo of the Naval Academy on one side and a certificate of appointment on the other. And there was also an acceptance/declination certificate along with some other papers. No where in this paperwork was anything that stated LOA, but this is all new territory for us. We took it to mean he had an appointment (which we are hoping is not rescinded due to one of the reasons Whistle Pig mentioned!!!).</p>