<p>A MOC is allowed to have more than 5 cadets from the district at an Academy. HOWEVER they can only have five cadets CHARGED TO THEIR DISTRICT. For instance, in our district the MOC submitted a competitive slate of 10 for class of 2011. SEVEN of those ten our now cadets at AFA in the class of 2011 and one is at the Prep School. One is charged to our MOC. One is charged to a Senator (candidate got a nom from both Senator & Rep), and FIVE were selected out of the national pool. Of the 7 in the class of 2011, there were 3 LOA’s. As I understand it, in a competitive slate the academy must charge the most qualified candidate to the MOC and the rest go to the National Pool. Cadets are drawn from the National Pool in order of their ranking within the pool. </p>
<p>It is entirely possible for a MOC to have ZERO openings in a given year. It is usually because of a change in reps. The old rep taking any/all available slots leaving the new rep unable to send in a slate. They cannot submit a slate unless they have an open position. </p>
<p>Zachogden - Admissions notifies your MOC a few days before they mail an appointment. In this way MOC’s are given the courtesy from AFA of telling you themselves, if they so choose. Some MOC’s call the student themselves, others have a staffer do the call - and quite a few just let the letter get to the appointee from AFA by mail. However, AFA gives the MOC the opportunity to tell you directly. Imagine if your MOC personally called you to tell you about an upcoming appointment and you responded with something like, “oh - yeah, I know. I talked to the clerk at AFA and she let me know - but gee, thanks for the call anyway, I was real excited when I talked to the clerk but it’s that was last week and now it’s kinda old news.” The MOC may have wanted to hear the excitement in your voice like the clerk got but it didn’t quite happen that way. Now you know why admissions is not going to tell you if you got an appointment on the phone! I suspect you may not wait until April to hear… (though you may or may not hear from your MOC!).</p>