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[Luigi59]

<p>Perhaps these two posts from Objee (a USCGA Admissions Officer) can put to rest this speculation about random lotteries for AIM candidates rated as ACCEPT.</p>

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@Objee

In the past, AIM applications were reviewed by two Admissions staff members and scored: 1) Accept; 2) Hold; or 3) Do Not Accept. All applicants placed on “Hold” were considered qualified for the program and had their names placed in a lottery (random selection) pool to fill available spots. Since all notification letters were mailed at the same time, applicants were not informed how they were scored, but just that they’d been selected to attend AIM.

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<p>Clearly, the applicants rated as ACCEPT were not placed into any lottery. Only the applicants rated as HOLD were placed in the “lottery” to fill the available slots once the number of ACCEPTS had been determined.</p>

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@Objee

Every application was reviewed using the same procedure, so the very first one they looked at had as much a chance of being scored an “Accept” as the very last one. The standards were intentionally high to ensure less than 480-500 (the total number of AIM participants) “Accept” scores were given…therefore, you’d always be randomly selecting some number of qualified applicants from the “Hold” pool.

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<p>Clearly, there were NOT “more Accepts than could be accommodated” - on the contrary, the exact opposite is true, there were intentionally LESS “accepts” than could be accommodated.</p>

<p>Please do not continue to propagate the rumor of some “random lottery” to get into AIM. </p>

<p>It is a competitive, selective process where the highest rated candidates are given slots (rated as ACCEPT), then the next tier (rated as HOLD) are placed in to a lottery to fill the class, as needed.</p>