<p>I'm feeling pessimistic only because I may not get a nomination from any of my MOC sources. If this ends of happening, do the service academies immediately disregard applications w/o nominations such as mine if that occurs? I hear that the admissions board use this to narrow down to a smaller pool of applicants (this for a fact is true) but I just do not know if those who don't have nominations are immediately rejected...Thanks for any responses.......:C</p>
<p>You must have a nomination from either your Congressman, one of your 2 Senators, The Vice President, or the President. </p>
<p>Yeah, but I’m hearing that you can get a nomination from another state if they have slots available…so I’m guessing that one could still be considered even if they don’t have a nomination?</p>
<p>dkdino- No. You cannot get an appointment without a nomination. What you are speaking of has to do with appointments that go unfilled by other states. You can get an appointment even if your state (i.e. Congressmen and Senators) has already put in its allotted number of positions. </p>
<p>Each member of Congress can nominate up to 10 people. Only 1 gets officially chosen (actually every fourth year they get 2). Because some states don’t have enough qualified nominees there are then slots that need to be filled. The Naval Academy takes the rest of the candidates from the lists who didn’t get in and puts them in a big pool. They rank each person and start at the top of the list filling the available slots. </p>
<p>So, if there are 300 unfilled spots because of all the places where nobody applied (or there wasn’t a qualified candidate) they take the top 300 ranked people from the slots 2-9 on each MOC nomination list who did not get in. </p>
<p>The bottom line: you can get in by, in effect, borrowing the slot from another state, but ONLY if you have a nomination. </p>
<p>Did you apply for a VP mom?</p>
<p>No, I believe its way to competitive.</p>
<p>I was encouraged to apply for all available to me, that’s why I asked. So I applied to my 2 senators, congressperson and VP. I find the service academy forums more helpful than this one for SA questions. Consider posting there as well. Good luck</p>
<p>Okay, I literally just did my VP. Wow, its really short…</p>
<p>So do you know now or will you know soon for sure that your congressman didn’t choose you for one of his or her 10 nominations? Have you been in contact with the staff? Often the people answering the representatives’ emails are college students or recent college students and they would probably be happy to find out for you.</p>
<p>That’s a generalization, my congressmen’s office consists of old men and women, so I would think that that is out of the question. I would think that I would come in as a pestering applicant. I would just have to wait. But my question is if no nomination, is the applicant done for the year? I’m starting to feel bummed.</p>
<p>I received letters in the mail. I have three to USNA (2 Sen + Congress), 1 to USMA (Congress) and I to USAFA (Congress). </p>
<p>Get nominations to all those? or just mails (confidential I guess)</p>
<p>Nominations</p>
<p>Holy crap. Care to shed your stats?</p>
<p>Gender: F
Location: Kansas</p>
<p>High School: Private
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.83
GPA - Weighted: 4.02
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 124</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>ACT: 30
E-32, M=28, R-31, S=29 W=10</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Honors Debate 3 years
Swim Team Manager
State Debate
Leadership positions:
Team Capitan Swimming
Team Capitan Golf</p>
<p>Athletic Status
Golf Varsity 3 years
Basketball JV 2 years
Swimming Varsity 4 years
Cross Country I year</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
Scorekeeper Topeka Parochial League 4 years
Library Volunteer 2 years</p>
<p>Honors and Awards: National Honor Society 3 years
Superior Honor Roll 4 years</p>
<p>College Summer programs:
Naval Academy Summer Seminar</p>
<p>I live in Maryland 3D (applied for Sarbanes).</p>
<p>I’m asian which makes everything ALOT worse my SAT scores are sh#t</p>
<p>gpa u: 3.76
gpa w: 4.45
rank unweighted: 19/238</p>
<p>All APs taken:
Calc AB
Calc BC (senior)
World
Chem (senior)
Physics Mech (senior)
Biology
Human Geo (senior)
English Language
English Literature (senior)
U.S. Government</p>
<p>For my HS career I’m just going to say that I took all Honors/GT classes. No reg. unless it was a requirement like Tech Ed. or P.E.</p>
<p>Plenty of extracurriculars:
President of Asian Club
Vice President (was Secretary, SGA Representative) of HS fraternity chapter
SGA Representative of Class
Editor in Chief of School newspaper (great publicity [sponsored by local politicians])
Math Team, Honor Society
NHS
Art NHS
MESA competitions
Master of Ceremony
tutor
Canvassed for Gansler and Jon Weinstein (who won the latest election)
Ball boyed for Citi Open Tennis Tournament
helped disabled 4 hr every saturday</p>
<p>Sports:
Taekwondo (9 years 2nd degree)
Club Soccer (both teens and adult leagues)
JV Soccer (2 yr)
Tennis V (3 year co captain)
Indoor Track JV and V (2 years)
V XC (1 year)
Club Tennis
HS Frisbee Team</p>
<p>Awards:
Presidential Volunteer Service Award (over 500+ hr)
Maryland Governor Citation for Korean cultural exchange in Taekwondo performances
City of Baltimore, Department of Agriculture certificate for cultural stuff
biomedical program certificate at Uniformed Service Academy (surgery and research stuff) summer</p>
<p>…but
SAT scores:
630 math
630 cr rd</p>
<p>I’m so blown. I can’t pass this frickkin test. I hate it. I don’t want to do ACT for a couple of reasons…USNA prefers SAT and I’m already accustomed to SAT. I wouldn’t want to switch. I am going to do another test in January which is allowed for USNA and USMA. I’m not sure what I can do from here. Two close friends of mine who are a senior at the Naval Academy and a freshmen at West Point have helped me for interviews and personal statement. Do I need to send my personal statement for an LOA. I am not expecting an LOA. All I want is to be accepted my a service academy. Yes my scores are absolute minimum dear god, but my dream is to be a commissioned officer in Navy or Army.</p>
<p>PS
-my BGO (for Naval Academy) is sorta slow in response and it takes her like a month to respond. should i take all Q to office?
-is it to late for BGO interviews? I have 6/7 items done (BGO has not responded and I emailed her a week ago from this date)</p>
<p>CFA
5:20 on mile
avg for everything else. Not to great not to bad.</p>
<p>Those are very good stats Kansaskid. The above are mine. Hmmm…I do not at all mean to be intrusive or evasive but are you a priority target for admissions? I am having similar experiences where most of my friends who are minorities are being handed LOAs already…</p>
<p>OKay, but yet again you are not living in Maryland! lol ok nvm! anyways good luck to you :D</p>
<p>I think the SAT one more time would help. </p>
<p>My BGO was very slow to respond as well. But I started the process in July so I interviewed in August. </p>
<p>Did you complete the physical, DoDMERB?</p>
<p>I live in a much less competitive state than you. You’re in a really tough one. </p>
<p>Also Navy accepts ACT. They have no preference. They take only you English and Math sub scores. </p>
<p>When I interviewed with my reps I had my entire application finished. I was told that my reps only want to nominate kids whose applications are complete. I don’t know if this applies to you. </p>
<p>I hope this helps you and good luck. </p>
<p>Thanks! yea that why I’m applying West Point. I’ll be doing the SATs one more time. I’m in the process of remedial and theres confusion between my side and dodmerb which really stinks because they just end up delaying everything. Its not like I want it to be like that…</p>