<p>I have a completed file at the Air Force Academy, my DoDmerb is complete and i have jumped through all of the other hoops that this application has presented to me but now i am in a major state of confusion. I received a nomination from my Senator a few weeks ago to USAFA and was excited…but then i got a phone call from my Congressman and his secretary told me that ive also received a nomination to the Air Force Academy from him. Except this nomination was a “primary” or “precedential” nomination. For one ive never heard of someone getting two nominations to the same service academy and secondly ive never really even heard of a primary nomination. Does anyone know anything about this sort of situation?
Thanks!! Tegan</p>
<p>If I'm correct, primary means they ranked you number one and if you are qualified (sounds like) then you must be given the appointment for that congressman. </p>
<p>Tow nominations isn't too unusual. Many people on here have it, one even has 3!</p>
<p>Congrats.</p>
<p>Principal nomination means your almost assured of getting in if your competative against 2010's class standards. </p>
<p>Multiple nominations happen...I somehow picked up 3...even though I had my appointment before two of them nominated me</p>
<p>It means your congressman told the AFA board "This is my top guy. I want him in."</p>
<p>Congrats. :)</p>
<p>thanks..i just had never really heard of either of these situations. i was sort of afraid that i somehow wasnt allowed to get two for the same place or something..i dont know! THanks though (and its "top girl" guy4christ)
Teg</p>
<p>I believe this website has more girls than guys on it... interesting when thinking of the ratio of Guys to Girls at the academy (8 in 10 are Guys!!!) I wonder why its disproportionate here???</p>
<p>but im not complaining!</p>
<p>haha! Neither am i..</p>
<p>i mean about the ratio at the academy..lol..that could have sounded bad.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahahah Itll make life more bearable out there</p>
<p>I have a question regarding my nomination. I was wondering if I received a congressional nomination, but no mention of whether it was a principal nomination or any other kind what does that mean. My congressman has just been elected so she has 5 vacancies.</p>
<p>check their website. my congressman specifies what type he uses in the info about a nom.</p>
<p>On the website under the nomination category it just says who my representative is and that it was received.</p>
<p>Chances are that it is unranked. I know its that way for my congressman and senators in texas. </p>
<p>Also, I think the 5 vacancies doesn't count and it carries over from the last congressman, however many they would have had this year.</p>
<p>check the actual representatives website. sorry i guess i wasnt clear on that. even though your moc has 5 vacancies they still need to keep some open for next year. filling all five this year means no slots next year. they will fill two at the most.</p>
<p>That 5 slot thing is very loosely followed.</p>
<p>Don't really understand the legality of it all, but each congressman is allowed to actually make 10 nominations per year. That seems to contradict the idea that they can only have a maximum of 5 in the academy at any one time. Our congressman sends 5 or 6 candidates to USAFA every year. It looks like this year he will be sending four to the academy just from our little town of about 9000 population.</p>
<p>At my representatives banquet for appointees/cadets I think there were near 10 USAFA cadets he had in at one time.</p>
<p><a href="https://admissions.usafa.af.mil/RR/Nomination%20Process.pdf%5B/url%5D">https://admissions.usafa.af.mil/RR/Nomination%20Process.pdf</a>
above link seems to be about as authoritative as any concerning academy nominations.</p>
<p>So does anyone know the rankings of nominatiosn that can be given out by Senators and Congressmen? And also can the President or Vice-President give out nominations? Just wondering.. and also is a congressional nomination the average nomination?</p>