Recent content by Moosestache

Unless things have changed, they only count math and verbal SAT scores, not writing. My guess is you scored somewhere in the 1100's on your SATs which is pretty low.

He started his second year, transferred in to his new school. At the time there were over 30 kids in his class. This spring 13 commissioned.

My son was in the class of 2014, he just graduated. So he went to SFT in 2012. His year had the extremely high % of acceptance, the year before, 2011 had a much lower acceptance rate. That being said, I am pretty sure the numbers of actual kids going to SFT were about the same. His class had...

Pima, some must commission later on in the year right?

Just to prepare you all as you get ready for military service. He just got new orders again, and now he is supposed to head out on June 30th. I am figuring it would be tough for them to move it again, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised. Just as an FYI, he was also contacted today by his...

Well not Hawaii, he is going to Pederson AFB in Colorado. He is in the procurement side. He is supposed to work with both the USAF and contractors developing new systems. He is excited about it.

Thanks Pima! I believe he is reporting directly to the base he will be stationed at, not a school, so this is probably it.

My son graduates next week. His original EAD was in October. Today he was notified it had been changed to July 4th. I was wondering if this is likely to be his last change, or if I shouldn't be surprised if it changes again before he heads out. Thanks!

At basic training you either went to service or did more training, not necessarily the fun kind, so all the kids went. I never asked my son about his experiences at FT, but he is religious anyways. (Step son went enlisted USAF, other son is a senior in ROTC) I will say that as a parent, we...

15 out of 20 at my son's school got in.

I would assume that rated is rated and non rated is non rated, regardless of whether they are tech or non-tech.

Just to clarify things a little bit. The 45% to 55% was from three years ago. Two years ago was the first year they cut numbers before they announced FT selection and the acceptance rate ended up being around 90% give or take. That was my son's class. I didn't really follow it last year, but...

Why would BYU graduation force the USAF to do anything?

We went through this all last year too. They will come out when they come out, and we will have no idea at all how many slots there will be until they actually come out. All the rest is just guessing.

College is often a huge transition for kids from high school. Lots of time they have done really well in high school without being forced to develop good study habits. In college you are taking classes with all the kids that did well in high school, you are forced to either develop those study...