<p>Quick question, if a candidate receives a principal nomination as well as his candidate number does that mean he is automatically accepted into the naval academy? i understand that If the congressman appoints a principal nominee, then as long as that candidate is physically, medically, and academically found qualified by the academy, he or she will be admitted, but is receiving your candidate number and becoming an official candidate does that mean you are academically qualified for the naval academy?</p>
<p>You will not receive an appointment unless you have been found triple qualified, scholastically, physically and medically. The candidates number only serves to allow you to complete the full application. Have you received any letters from the Admissions Board at the Academy telling you you have been found scholastically qualified? If not, you need to find out if they have made a decision on you. Have you already secured a principal nomination this early?</p>
<p>I have received information telling me that I am both physically and medically qualified, however I have not gotten anything telling me that I am scholastically qualified. I always thought receiving the candidate number was the academy's way of indicating that you are scholastically qualified. I will call first thing tomorrow and see if I meet their requirements in order to be scholastically qualified. And unfortunately no I have not secured a principal nomination I was just curious as to how the system works. Thanks!</p>
<p>USNA will notify you when you are academically qualified. The likely reason you have not heard is that they have not yet reviewed your package (they do this on a rolling basis) or have yet to make a decision (some candidates are deferred for later review). You can call them but they may have no answer.</p>
<p>Also, not all MOCs make principal noms. Many simply nominate 10 candidates for each vacancy and let USNA decide which one(s) to select.</p>
<p>And as 1985 rightly notes in the case when MOCs simply nominate 10 without principal and/or ranked nominees, while you may have your credentials in order and properly submitted, others with whom you may be competing for that nomination may not. Thus you may wait because they're late.</p>
<p>How long has your application been complete? It takes some time, my Mids was complete in August 2008 and he got his scholatically qualified letter in November 2008, so it can take some time. As for the "principal" nomination, few MOC'S use them but some do. My understanding is that if you are fully triple Q'ed and you get a principal nomination and the MOC has an open slot at the Academy, then the Academy is required to appoint you. As stated above, most just submit a slate and let the Academy select. It is also very important as to how many Mid's are attending that have been nominated by a particular MOC, my understanding is that the limit is 5 per MOC in at any one time. So if your MOC has 4 in only 1 can be taken from their slate, conversely if they have none in, they could potentially get 5 taken off of their slate depending on how the board views their qualifications.</p>
<p>I have heard that said about most MOC's not prioritizing their slates. Does anyone have any hard evidence of that? I know with our 3 sources, this was NOT the case.</p>
<p>And in the case noted above, the final number of appointees has little to do with the number of slots available to the MOC. If all 5 are deemed worthy and more so than others, they'll get in. Last year we heard of 7 being admitted from one district.</p>
<p>What is the difference between Academically and Scholastically Qualified?</p>
<p>Anyone know where USNA69 has been lately? Haven't seen a post for a while.</p>
<p>I think it would be hard to "prove" since many don't publicize their slates while many place them in a press release. I know in our state, since I saw all of the slates that no MOC principally nominated anyone. Our Congressman told us that they all had agreed to leave it to the Academy. I have friends who have Mids in the 2012 class from 5 or 6 states and they were not aware of any principal nominations either. BUT it does happen, I would suggest they are about as frequent as LOA's are sent out, but that is pure speculation. I would think they are only used in very "special" circumstances where the MOC wants to absolutely insure an appointment.</p>
<p>The only difference is semantics, my Mids actual letter used the term scholastically qualified. There was a discussion here a while back where I actually used the term "academically" rather than "scholastically" as was quickly informed of the error. If you get the letter you will know, although some, surprisingly, stated they never got the letter.</p>
<p>My son was informed by telephone yesterday that he had been selected to receive the Principal Nomination from our MOC. My son’s Blue and Gold officer confirmed that our MOC makes Principal Nominations and informed my son that if he is triple qualified, the Principal Nomination means he will receive an appointment to the Academy.</p>
<p>Your great news is simply terrific! We can definitely imagine the cloud 9 …and maybe 10, 11, and 12…floating you and yours about this night.</p>
<p>Congratulations! Now …let us know when his packet arrives to inform on a sense of timing, keep him healthy, studying, and devoid of any moral turpitude or felonies.</p>