<p>As Navy2010 said, NAPS is still extremely competitive. Basically, those slots go to the first 300 or so applicants who WOULD have gotten into USNA if 300 other people hadn’t been ahead of them.</p>
<p>I can’t speak to Foundation, but I suspect it’s the same.</p>
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<p>Not exactly, but the exceptions are so few and far between that they may as well be non-existant.</p>