So I have an LOA, and am 3Q with a nomination as of yesterday or today. How long does it usually take for an appointment to show up? My assumption is that the admissions board will meet this Thursday, review my file and decide there is an appointment, and then give my congressman's office a week to notify me. So, I should find out officially sometime after this Thursday, with an appointment showing up in my portal the Thursday after. I know assumptions can be and often are incorrect; that's why I'm asking. What do you all think?
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Anytime between now and mid-April.
Therr are multiple parallel and intersecting processes. The board may have already reviewed your file for admissibility (someone had to decide on an LOA for you at some point). No one jumps right up after a board wraps up and runs to a keyboard to input appointment offers. Not that simple. The Noms and Appointments team QAs and reviews and makes its decisions. A senior Admissions official probably has to sign off on names recommended for appointments, and that is more likely to happen in batches than onesy-twosies. There are thousands of names, files and bits of data floating around in the system right now. Yours could be in an e-pile with others awaiting final actions.
The elected official might not choose to make notifications. Your portal may just change one day.
Focus on what you can control. You are in excellent shape.
Therr are multiple parallel and intersecting processes. The board may have already reviewed your file for admissibility (someone had to decide on an LOA for you at some point). No one jumps right up after a board wraps up and runs to a keyboard to input appointment offers. Not that simple. The Noms and Appointments team QAs and reviews and makes its decisions. A senior Admissions official probably has to sign off on names recommended for appointments, and that is more likely to happen in batches than onesy-twosies. There are thousands of names, files and bits of data floating around in the system right now. Yours could be in an e-pile with others awaiting final actions.
The elected official might not choose to make notifications. Your portal may just change one day.
Focus on what you can control. You are in excellent shape.
Yes, they do. I found out from my candidate portal.
Not a good assumption, since it is based on logic
. 3Q notifications, LOA notifications, file reviews, and appointments are not linear processes. You could receive an appointment notification tomorrow or next April, but probably sooner rather than later. Most likely during the first wave (usually in January) or sooner.MOC's are given 72 hours to notify candidate before admission does.
No one outside admissions knows exactly how the process works, but years of observation suggest that it is constructed in similar fashion to a Rube Goldberg machine.
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So you will get an appointment but maybe they will send it now or maybe they will send it as part of a big tranche of mailings in mid- to late-January. With the big dip in applications to the service academies and to US colleges and universities in general, I do not think they will make you wait until January...they want you to commit (before you get into Harvard...or finish your other applications) so that they can built their class.
Good job you! Now you wait. Enjoy this holiday season with your family and your time with friends. Great changes are ahead.
Good job you! Now you wait. Enjoy this holiday season with your family and your time with friends. Great changes are ahead.