<p>Zoobernarf - not sure if I understand you question exactly but will give it a shot… Each MOC will advise who they are granting a nomination to on their own schedule. Though most have interviews around this time of year, they do not have to tell the SA’s who is on their slate until Jan 31. Depending on where you are from and how things work within your state, the rep and senators office may (or may not) work together to give noms to as many candidates as possible. In some areas they work together, in some not. In some states some of the reps give their noms list to the Senators … in some they don’t. Sometimes MOC’s will wait until the rep or the senator (whichever they are not) submit their slate so so they can be last … (i.e. if a rep has 11 great kids and has a hunch that a senator may give one of them a nom, they may hold their entire slate until the senator submits the slate so that if that students gets a senator nom that student may be removed from the rep slate to put candidate #11 on the slate instead (theoretically they are thus getting more students from their district an opportunity to attend) … of course, the converse holds true as well. It simply depends on how willing the offices are to work together… All that said, sometimes they just submit their slate when they are ready and that’s the end of it… some noms come very early (Oct/Nov timeframe) others don’t get done until the end of January. The MOC submits the entire slate at one time … There are any number of things that go into it. Suffice it to say that you will hear not later than early February if you got a nom (hopefully earlier!). Each MOC can submit a slate of 10 names for each opening (though they do not have to fill the slate if they don’t want to). Getting a nom from a MOC is not the end of it. If the MOC has only one opening they may submit 10 candidates for that spot. The MOC can submit the nominations in several ways, ranked (i.e. telling the Academy that these are the 10 in order and the SA must offer to the candidates in that order, assuming each is fully qualified). Or, they can submit all 10 and let the SA decide who is the one to get the one open slot… Alternatively, the can pick one top and have the other 9 open for the SA to rank. There are so many things that go into to it that it is very difficult to cover it all here…</p>