Louis, I don’t know if the second board will follow suit of the first, but this is how the timeline for the first AROTC board of 2013/2014 went:
I am a bit fuzzy on the date, but if I recall, the first board was pushed to Nov. 4th because of the government shutdown.
About 2 ½ weeks later (Wednesday, Nov. 20th ), a mass emailing went out in the afternoon advising the selected candidates that they had received a scholarship. It also said that a follow-up letter would be received about 7-10 days later.
The next day, one school (the first alphabetically) of the three that were offered (to first board recipients) was listed online at the Army ROTC scholarship status site.
Then, within just a few days, a copy of the winner letter was posted in the scholarship portal (not the check status site) under the file upload system, titled "winner letter." It reflected all the schools the candidate was offered to choose from, and whether it was a 3 or 4 year scholarship award.
The actual mailed award letter started arriving to awardees on Nov. 25th. Though, it was the same as the one that could be viewed on the portal.
Again, who knows if the timeline for the second board will follow that of the first, so this is just fyi only. Good Luck to all!!!