<p>One hundred seventy appointments are available annually to regular and reserve Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel. For more information, see your commands career counselor or call the enlisted accessions coordinator in the Academys Admissions office.</p>
<p>Reference: OPNAVINST 1420.1 or Marine Corps Order 1530.11G</p>
<p>Application deadline: January 31</p>
<p>Apply to: the Naval Academy via your commanding officer.</p>
<p>This category is the nomination source for most NAPS candidates.</p>
<p>Actually it is about selecting the brigade from nominees - how those nominees are to be distributed in the brigade.<br>
The numbers are the maximum allowed by law not the actual - not all the categories will be filled.</p>
<p>Remember - not every MOC slot will be filled. There are congressional districts each year that won't sponsor a mid/cadet. This makes the alternate list bigger.</p>
<p>GA, that's what I thought and wrote many hrs. ago about the 85 ea., I am so confused now! If we go back to post 35 and 37. Shouldn't it be easy math?</p>
<p>^^^^^
At the last CVW, the admission staff told the candidates and their parents to not be concerned with how the nominations/quotas are racked and stacked. Candidates should just be concerned with obtaining a nomination.</p>
<p>I would think that "civilians" going to NAPS qualify under Naval reserve of which there are only 85 slots available. Class of 2011 admitted 202 from NAPS and 50 were prior service (active duty) - some of those NAPSters needed a nomination from another source......</p>
<p>Most of the nomination sources do not fill their quotas. There are probably 80 or so MOC unfilled appointments, the President normally only fills 80 or so per year, and the SecNav probably around half of his fixed allowance. It probably depends on the Supt, but my experience is that they only fill 30 or so of theirs. All active duty enlisted and NAPS "civilians" are required to attempt nominations through their local MOCs. Very very few reserves take advantage of the opportunity. Therefore probably only around a half of the SecNavs 170 are utilitzed. The 150/200 US Code Title 10 quote by JAM is just to ensure the 50 which are the Supts are in the top 200 of the selected alternates. After that, the SecNav can continue to fill the class until the 1200 or so are reached (the last code was written when the Brigade strength was 4000. It is now 4400). I have seen numbers all over the board for the quantity of qualified alternates selected. My best guess is that it is around a third of the class.</p>
<p>I apologize if I confused anybody. My intent was to show readers on the board that the process is all out in the open in terms of numbers because it's governed by US law, and there's really no mystery. </p>
<p>As a BGO, I get a lot of questions about "nomination vs. appointment" and I take great care to explain the difference, and to emphasize that you only need one nomination - even though I tell people to apply for all the sources that they're eligible for.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that it is a very fair process even if it does add a lot of extra work for the candidate. If you have a nom and are triple q'ed, you go into a pool of approximately 2,000 applicants who have cleared those same hurdles. From there, it's whether you're one of the best 1500 applicants who have applied. 3 out of 4 are pretty good odds, aren't they?</p>
<p>Yep, without a doubt. With only a small handful of exceptions, the top 1500 of the 2000 3Qs are offered an appointment. There is a misconception that the "lesser competitive" districts grant nominations to those minimally qualified candidates. I don't think this is necessarily true. There will nearly always be one or two highly qualified candidates. The pool may not be as large, but in many cases, the top candidate will be as qualified as the more competitive districts. So the advice to get as many nominations as possible and not to give up until I-Day remains.</p>