I second jcleppe's opinion that as much as you are proud....trust us....nobody next year will give a rat's arse. In fact, very few cadets knew which kid is scholarship and which isn't. The real tell is if the stipend doesn't arrive in their bank account, and how they are all of the sudden not broke like every college kid on the 1st and the 15th
IOWs the scholarship is not a sign or guaranteed success as a cadet. I am not trying to burst the bubble or rain on your parade by saying this. I am trying to make sure you will succeed.
If you look at threads that occur @ Aug/Sept. Posters and parents get a very rude awakening from a PFT perspective. You cannot contract until you pass the test. That means keep working out. If it is slightly raining, run. If it is 90 degrees, run. If you stayed up until 1 a.m., get up at 6 and do the test. Trust me there will be nights you will have little sleep, even if you try, because dorms are loud, papers are due, studying will occur. Most importantly get used to making sure it is proper form. They are not going to be like your PE teacher that is staying late to give the test and wants to get home. They are going to be adamant about the form when they count it.
Again congrats on the scholarship, enjoy the down time for a few weeks, but get your nose back to the grindstone so you can shine on your own merits as a cadet those first few weeks, and PT is one of those ways to shine.
Andzgirl.
You can hold onto that scholarship until I day. Many do. Typically what happens is if the student has both an appointment and a scholarship for the same service branch, I.e. AFA and AFROTC, the ALO does the presentation and acknowledges both. It is uncommon to have someone hold a ROTC scholarship to one branch and an appointment to another. I am sure it occurs, just saying in all of my time here I have never seen it discussed. On the other hand I would say that on this site the holding on until I day is always a topic of discussion, and my guess would be 50-50 on the amount that hold onto it. Main reason is many of these kids are athletes, Break a bone playing LAX, Track, Tennis,Baseball, softball in May, and they maybe on the cusp for I day, since the SAs will do a physical upon arrival. There was a poster here years ago. DS fell off the bus before taking the oath. He was a medical tutnback that afternoon. His folks paid the safety net deposit, and he attended college in ROTC for a yr. On a ROTC scholarship. Came back the next summer.