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In the above situation, a Supes nomination would be available. the "reasons unknown" would be key to the "why."

Yes, some do decline immediately and others are offered these openings. However, navy2010 is correct. Based on historical data, they can anticipate within a few percentage points, the acceptance rate and will send out offers commensurate with this projection. Commencing three or so years ago, Admissions also established a waiting list. This allows them to ‘fine tune’ class size even further and is also the source of many of...

Yes, you're right about splitting hairs. Perhaps you should ask the USNA when you get in. Hypothetical "what if" quandaries are unending, unimportant, and a total waste or yours or others who might take that bait to respond, time. Stick to what is.

Everything that I have read on this forum.....is that the admissions process and the nomination process are totally mutually exclusive processes. The admissions process does not influence the nomination process......so....... If the admissions process "liked" a candidate and the nomination process "did not like" a candidate.....I can logically see how a LOA can get generated from the admissions process and...

If you received a principle nomination, then you are probably scholastically qualified. A MOC is not going to give a principle nomination to someone who wasn't.

The general requirements to go to med school are no more rigorous than those for VGEP. I guess everyone who desires graduate education should be put under the same generalizations that Mombee stated.

Quote: “Not for self, but country” is the motto of the Naval Academy. Will a medical school candidate, knowing that he has to have an ‘A’ on the next day’s Chemistry quiz be as likely to help his roommate struggling with Calculus in order to remain sat? I think your suggestion that, somehow, a midshipman striving to get into the Medical Corps is a selfish and unpatriotic person is just wrong...

Your best bet with any DODMERB or medical qualification question is to contact Larry Mullen, Deputy Director of DODMERB over at United States of America Service Academy Forums - he usually will give you an answer within 24 hours. Obviously, a candidate with a broken finger is not 3 q'd, but once he is healed and qualified again (or waivered) he will once again be 3 q'd and with his principal nomination, he will receive an appointment.

So Luigi: Once his medical has the remedial removed, he should be good to go, with the appointment? It's just a broken finger but we felt we were legally obliged to report it to DODMERB. I guess my concern was that they would move to the first alternate on the list if he wasn't 3 Q'd at the time that the principal nomination comes into their office.

Our congressman (Frelinghuysen - 11th District) called my son at school - they pulled him out of class and made a big deal out of it. Two days later we received two letters from the congressman - one saying he received a nomination, the other saying he received the appointment. A week later we received the Appointment from the Academy. My son has a friend who is also applying - and he too received a letter (but no phone call) that he received...