<p>Do they send you to USMAPS?</p>
<p>what do mean by accepted? Do you mean that candidate is all qualified but still doesn’t recieve an appointment? If this is the case, West Point will probably place you on the National Waiting List. If a slot opens up in the entering class, west point will usually fill it with a candidate on the waiting list. Also, if you are qualified in every area you don’t qualify USMAPS. Although, you can qualify for the Association of Graduates West Point preparatory scholarship program. (You’ll probably see it refered to as AOG)</p>
<p>Not sure what you are asking.</p>
<p>If you get an ‘appointment’ to a service Academy and accept, then you are in. The exact size of the class is determined by how many people accept their appointments.</p>
<p>So if you are on the national waiting list, all you have to do is wait and you will be eventually accepted into west point?</p>
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<p>No. You may get in or you may not. It depends upon how many candidates that have been offered an appointment turn it down. </p>
<p>Here is some information about the national waiting list that I found on our local parent’s club website:</p>
<p>"The national waiting list is the top 150 candidates from across the United States whose Whole Candidate Concept ranking is just below that of candidates who are offered admission. The Whole Candidate Concept is the very fair and very careful file scoring system West Point Admissions uses to rank order candidates by overall merit. </p>
<p>The three major areas of the Whole Candidate Concept and their individual weight are: 60% Academics, 30% Leadership Potential and 10% Physical Aptitude. Within each of these areas, and especially the first two, are nuanced sub-and sub-sub-areas for which points are given or not. </p>
<p>Over the years, the Whole Candidate Concept has proven highly successful in identifying candidates who will succeed as Cadets. The goal is a Cadet who graduates as a Commissioned Officer in our United States Army. </p>
<p>Not winning a district/senatorial nomination, or a highly enough ranked district/senatorial nomination if their Congressperson/Senator(s) rank orders their nominees, is a usual but not the only reason for a candidate to be placed on the national waiting list. </p>
<p>The overall reason for being placed on the national waiting list is having a Whole Candidate Concept ranking that is just below the cut off point for offers of admission for a given Class. </p>
<p>All candidates are ranked by the scores receive through Whole Candidate Concept and the first 150 such candidates who rank just below the cut off point for offers of admissions to a given Class automatically are placed on the national waiting list, in rank order. </p>
<p>Thus the importance of retaking SATs/ACTs to bring up one’s scores (a major element of the 60% academic component of the Whole Candidate Concept), of varsity sports letters and leadership, of sustained community service and leadership activities, and of passing the PAE (Physical Aptitude Exam) with the highest possible scores in each event. </p>
<p>For recent Classes the rate of acceptances of offers has been so high that few if any candidates are offered admission from the national waiting list. This pattern seems likely to continue. Thus being placed on the national waiting list makes an offer of admission for that Class unlikely. However, as long as the candidate would be under 23 years of age by R-Day for the Class to which they are offered admission, there is always next year."</p>
<p>No, that is not how it works exactly. If you are found qualified and then you have a nomination, you are on the list. Then the slots are filled from the list. Some people rank higher than others, so they get in, while others do not. The goal is to get high on the list by showing excellence in leadership, scholarship, and fitness. You are getting a bit caught up in the “what if’s” and worrying about things you don’t need to at this point…go through the process, keep working hard, do your best; that’s all you can really do. Best wishes!</p>
<p>“For recent Classes the rate of acceptances of offers has been so high that few if any candidates are offered admission from the national waiting list. This pattern seems likely to continue. Thus being placed on the national waiting list makes an offer of admission for that Class unlikely.”</p>
<p>Not true.</p>
<p>“If you are found qualified and then you have a nomination, you are on the list. Then the slots are filled from the list.”</p>
<p>Not completely true either.
Those who are fully qualified and have a nomination, but have not yet won a cadetship from their nomination source are put on the National Waiting List.</p>
<p>This repost may be helpful:</p>
<p>A nomination is the legal authority that USMA needs to consider a candidate for an appointment. Each MOC and the VP are allowed 5 cadetships at USMA at any one time. Each may nominate up to 10 candidates to fill each vacant cadetship (usually 1 vacancy a year, therefore 1 slate of 10 nominees per year).</p>
<p>MOC Nomination Method:</p>
<p>Principal method: principal nominees, if fully qualified, are notified of their appointments immediately after their file evaluation is completed. If the principal is disqualified or declines the offer, admissions goes down the list in accordance with the MOC method used. </p>
<p>Principal with Numbered Alternates method: if the principal is disqualified or declines the offer, the First Alternate is evaluated – if qualified offered admission. If not the Second Alternate is evaluated etc.</p>
<p>Principal with Competing Alternates method: if the principal declines or is disqualified, the Competing Alternate who is fully qualified with the highest Whole Candidate Score (WCS), is offered admission. Should the selected candidate decline the offer of admission, the next fully qualified candidate in order of merit (WCS) is offered the appointment – and so on down the line of qualified candidates. </p>
<p>Competitive method: after each candidate on the nomination list is evaluated, the candidates are rank-ordered using the Whole Candidate Evaluation, and the appointment is offered to the fully qualified candidate with the highest WCS. Should the selected candidate decline the offer of admission, the next fully qualified candidate in order of merit (WCS) is offered the appointment – and so on down the line of qualified candidates. </p>
<p>Current classes are composed of approx. 1300 cadets. Congressional and Service Connected Nominations account for about 841 appointments per year.
National Waiting List (NWL) - The waiting list contains the names of all fully qualified candidates who have a nomination but have not yet been offered admission. Candidates are rank ordered by Whole Candidate Score (WCS).
Offers of admission are made from the NWL until the incoming class is brought up to the desired size. Selection from the waiting list can continue until the new class reports on R-Day.
Under Title 10 of the US Code, 150 candidates must be selected from the NWL by WCS as Qualified Alternates. The Academy is also authorized to select cadets without regard to WCS as Additional Appointees. They ratio of 3:1 for Congressional to Service Connected nominations must be maintained.</p>
<p>Ann,
Thank you for a good post…after writing mine I re-read it and realized it was not entirely accurate (although it made sense when I wrote it, I thought!). I tried to delete, but the 20min were up, and I asked the admin to delete, but so far, no go…so I am guilty of spreading misinformation! Thank you for clarifying with an excellent post…I’m going to leave that stuff to the masters for now on =)</p>