Thank you Sir for these. We're in the up and down emotional roller coaster of all this now. Son has a couple more weeks in the 11th grade. STELLAR resume (Private Pilot/Learning Russian/Good GPA/Boys State/Foreign exchange student last year/JROTC Raider Challenge team captain/command position in military prep school/and on and on...), BUT sub 1000 SAT. We'd pretty much decided to not bother even working on a package. Your videos provide a small glimmer of hope. Guess we'll keep driving until we're told to sit down and go away. Keep doing these for the parents and students still in the fight!
Your son still has time to keep improving his SATs! Don't give up. Even if you are turned down the first year, applying the first year paves the road to the reapplication. Watch our video on USNA reapplicants
So this means MD, NY, NJ, CA, Wash DC and other super competitive districts get more admissions. This is good because we want the most qualified cadets and midshipmen at these academies!!
Hi is the change to the number of congressional nominations been confirmed? I cant seem to see any changes to the information being communicated by the academies or the congressional websites. Thank you
Hello Sir, I have a question that even the academy has been vague in answering. My son is a cadet candidate at the prep school at West Point this year. They said it is a full reapplication year for him. He needs another congressional nomination or I also understand the commendant has a large number of nominations for the prep schoolers. I have no doubt that he will pass this year and qualify out of prep school. What is the actual process for getting nominations and moving from USMAPS to USMA? Thank you.
You'll definitely want to re-apply for the Congressional nomination, as you should apply for any nomination you are eligible for. Most likely your son will occupy one of the 85 nomination slots for the prep school, which is technically from the Army Reserves. His biggest concern is not where the nomination will come from, but making sure his performance this year is excellent (think Scholar, Athlete, Leader), the rest will take care of itself.
i dont know how to take this to be honest, on one hand it may affect me negatively but on the other i am in Nebraska district three which is generally considered "less competitive" than others. i also have two more years to work on everything before i submit so i dont know if this is actually that terrible.
Whether or not the academies desire the change from 10 to 15 nominees and 200 qualified alternates instead of 150 is unknown. From our experience, the academies would prefer to have 150 QAs and 50 additional appointments they can pull to meet class composition goals. 200 QAs is more restrictive on admissions, assuming they are ranking candidates objectively using the whole candidate score.
