There is a vote via sub committee, points etc matter, but still a vote. From NCAA site below:
How do teams get into the cross country championships? The regionals are a crucial event within the championships selection process. A team's advancement to the national championship is dependent on their performance at the regional championships. Once the regionals have concluded, the top two teams in each regional — there are nine in total — automatically qualify for the championships, which equates to 18 automatic qualifiers. In other words, it's the safest route to qualification. The NCAA DI Cross Country Subcommittee will then choose 13 at-large teams to fill out the 31 team field. At-large teams selections are based firstly on their performance at regionals, making the third- and fourth-place teams the most likely candidates. Regular and postseason (up until the championships) results combine to create a detailed resume of a team's performance throughout the season, and that resume is also looked over by the subcommittee to determine at-large championship selections. The amount of regular season points and specifically the wins against teams that have already qualified or been selected to the national championships really matter here.
See page 15 of the doc below. It's not a vote. There is a procedure outlined that the committee follows.
Men's Individual Qualifiers, very very unofficially
Great Lakes Baidy Ba, Kent State, 7 Gabriel Sanchez, Indiana, 14 CarLee Stimpfel, Michigan St, 19 Aden Smith, Michigan St, 20 Mid-Atlantic Ibrahim Kadir, La Salle, 6 Jack Miller, Pitt, 7 Taonga Mbambo, La Salle, 9 Luke Henseler, Pitt, 13 Midwest Ryan Martins, Loyola-Chicago, 2 Gable Sieperda, Iowa State, 8 Isaac Basten, Drake, 9 Titus Winders, Iowa State, 10 Marquette Hanson, Missouri, 11 Mountain Abdirizak Ibrahim, New Mexico, 18 Victor Kibiego, UTEP, 20 (gotta be in top 25, so Mountain only gets 2, opening up 2 extra at-large slots) Northeast Tyler Berg, Columbia, 3 Perry MacKinnon, Cornell, 4 Marcelo Rocha, Providence, 5 Alexander Korczynski, Northeastern, 7 Lachlan Wellington, Iona, 9 Rhys Hammond, Cornell, 10 South Kirami Yego, South Alabama, 3 Fearghal Curtin, Florida St, 6 Ryan Kinnane, Auburn, 7 Teagan Flanagan, South Alabama, 10 South Central Jonathan Chung, Texas A&M, 6 Dennis Kipngeno, Texas A&M-Corpus, 7 George Wheeler, Lamar, 8 Bradley Makuvire, Tulane, 9 Victor Neiva, North Texas, 10 Southeast Nickolas Scudder, Charlotte, 1 Dylan Schubert, Furman, 4 Antonio Lopez Segura, VT, 5 Zach Kinne, Duke, 9 West Jonathan Shields, Boise State, 10 Vincent Mauri, Arizona State, 11 Jake Ritter, Cal Poly, 12 Nicholas Russell, Santa Clara, 13
According to Flotrack and their calculations in KOLAS the Women NCAA qualifiers are:
Great Lakes Region University of Notre Dame Ohio State University University of Michigan Michigan State University University of Wisconsin Toledo University
Mid-Atlantic Region Georgetown University West Virginia University
Midwest Region Oklahoma State University Northwestern University
Mountain Region University of New Mexico University of Utah Northern Arizona University Colorado State University University of Colorado Brigham Young University Utah Valley University
Northeast Region Providence University Syracuse University
South Region University of Alabama Florida State University
South Central Region University of Arkansas University of Texas
Southeast Region North Carolina State University University of North Carolina University of Virginia
West Region Stanford University University of Oregon University of Washington Oregon State University California Baptist University Video:
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Great Lakes Region University of Wisconsin University of Notre Dame University of Michigan Butler University
Mid-Atlantic Region Villanova University Georgetown University Princeton University
Midwest Region Oklahoma State University Tulsa University
Mountain Region Northern Arizona University Brigham Young University University of Colorado Air Force Montana State University Colorado State University Utah State University
Northeast Region Syracuse University Harvard University
South Region University of Tennessee University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) University of Alabama
South Central Region University of Arkansas University of Texas
Southeast Region University of North Carolina University of Virginia Wake Forest University North Carolina State University
West Region Men Stanford University Gonzaga University University of Washington University of Oregon
After much research, I admit there is no "vote" to get in but a convoluted process that is still not perfectly clear. 18 teams in, that's easy. Then 18 to make 13 spots based on points. They go down the line for the at large. Then if a team doesn't have enough points and what isn't enough isn't clear, I'll assume zero, they go further down the list. I'm not even clear if 13 of the 18 teams (3rd and 4th) at all the regions have at least 1 point, they get in and if you are 5th or later, tough luck. I've already spent too much time trying to figure this out.