BIG CHANGES to 2025 Service Academy Nominations

In this episode, we discuss two major changes to nominations starting now and the way academies select candidates to offer appointments to, for anyone entering in June of 2025 or later.

Each Member of Congress is able to now nominate 15 candidates instead of 10.

The list of Qualified Alternates is expanding from 150 to 200 for each Service Academy.

We discuss what both of these mean for current and future candidates.

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00:00-00:32 Introduction
00:33-02:32 Two big changes
02:33-05:37 200 qualified alternates (up from 150)
05:38-08:10 Each Member of Congress - 15 candidates
08:11-13:30 Impact of the change to qualified alternates