<p>Does the Merchant Marine Academy also use the Presidential Nomination like USMA and USNA? I'm interested in applying, but my 3 congressional nomination sources have already been used for USMA.</p>
<p>From the Academy website: "There are no Presidential, Vice-Presidential, military-affiliated, JROTC-honor unit, ROTC or Unit Commander, or Medal of Honor nominations permitted to the Academy"</p>
<p>If you are qualified they will search for an unused nomination for you. Ask Admissions for their help. If you mean West Point ( USMA ) I believe they are completely different nominations. Also congressman will horse trade nominations. My congressman had 29 appointments one year. He got unused appointments from other congressman. Not too many appointments to the USMMA from Wyoming.</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken I believe that USMMA allows only nominations from the state where the candidate resides. This is from the admissions web site "Nominees must reside in the state or territory that the nominating official represents, or have a 'home of residence' in a particular state, or territory represented by the nominating official."</p>
<p>Wow... they wont even give nominations to sons and daughters of MOH winners... Tsk.. tsk..</p>
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<p>Who is "they"? :confused:</p>
<p>If "they" is the USMMA, then you're confused - they don't give out nominations, they give out appointments.</p>
<p>If "they" is the Congress, then petition them to change the law about how nominations are handled (Code of Federal Regulations, Title 10) for appointments to the USMMA. </p>
<p>It's a FEDERAL law, not a USMMA policy.</p>
<p>USMMA is a separate academy and usually congressmen and senators have plenty of slots to nominate, because there are usually less applicants requesting nominations to USMMA.</p>