2nd board results

Jcleppe said:
You would be surprised just how many applicants are awarded scholarships that meet just the final board. Since they are placed on the existing OML they can easily be placed at the top of the list based on their scores, and those that were toward the top of the previous OML may find that they have dropped way down after the new applicants are added.

Many will wait until they have been admitted to their college choices before finalizing their application. Applying late can have an effect on school selections, some schools may have met their quotas by the third board.
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I'm waaay too conservative for that gamble! When my son made it clear he wanted to apply for a scholarship, I told him to make sure he had it in by the first board so that he had as many shots as possible.
 
Future2LtMom said:
I'm waaay too conservative for that gamble! When my son made it clear he wanted to apply for a scholarship, I told him to make sure he had it in by the first board so that he had as many shots as possible.
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I'm with you, my son met the first board when he applied in 2010.
 
Kaiserstephan said:
Hoping we here something tomorrow
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I betcha that the emails are going out today or Friday and the application portals will be updated over the weekend. CC has already announced that the portal will be down over the weekend. Plus, on the first board, they sent out the golden ticket email out a day or two before the appl. portal was updated. I sincerely hope it's today, though!
 
I hope they come out today! I don't think I can handle another day of waiting for this email!
 
Trackswagggg said:
On the UNG AROTC scholarship page, it says around 11,000 students applied, 5,000 became boarded, and 2,500 were awarded either a 4 year or 3 year AD scholarship for all boards. So total, about 50% of board-qualified students earn a scholarship.
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Can you link me to that page please? Is that for this year or last year?
 
+1 Future

Many of us have walked down this road, and whether you get a congrats or sorry at this time....letter your Army career will begin next fall if you want it.

Scholarship recipients are the minority of the cadets at any unit. It has no bearing on your abikity to succeed once there. Some kids look better on paper, yet that does not translate with 100% certainty that they will be the best cadet. The only true impact that will occur with getting a scholarship is financial.
~~~ I don't know statistically the numbers, but many kids that don't get ROTC scholarships do get merit scholarships too, thus the impact maybe even less than you think.

Have a great day, as much as you can. Just remember that this roller coaster ride is just starting, you got four more years of meeting boards and waiting, with each board this one will look in hindsight as the least important you ever met.
~ For parents, think of this board like Braxton Hicks, and every board in ROTC as labor, cumulinating with the commission as the birth.
 
Trackswagggg said:
http://ung.edu/military-college/scholarships-and-grants/army-rotc-scholarship-faqs.php

Actually 2,000 out of the 5,000 were awarded scholarships. Half of those 2,000 were 3 year AD.
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Thanks. I see it now. From the page:
Q: How many scholarships are available nation-wide?
A: For the academic year 2012-2013, 11,000 high school seniors applied for the scholarship. Of those, 5,000 completed their applications and became board-qualified. About two thousand of the 5,000 applicants were awarded a scholarship. Half of those were 4-year scholarships and half were 3-year scholarships. Nation-wide, forty-one million dollars were awarded to high school seniors.
 
Somewhere in the bowels of this forum, Clarkson or Marist posted the exact same numbers. If my memory serves me, AROTC scholarships had the highest statistical chance compared to N/AFROTC, but it was still around a 20% chance.

JMPO, but people put too much weight on the number and not the %. 2000 awarded sounds great, and a lot of scholarships, but when you say it is 20%, it doesn't sound as good.

Additionally because of their system, scholarship tied to the college, those percentages can be skewed even more. Some colleges maybe more demanded than others. I.E if you are in VA, you may place VMI, VT, JMU, VCU and GMU on your slate. Except for VMI, all of those schools are on the avg hs seniors list for IS residenrs. Two of those are SMCs. It would not shock me, if it is statistically more competitive to get a scholarship for those schools, than a candidate from Maine, North Dakota, Wyoming, etc. from the perspective of placing In State colleges on your list and SMCs.
~ Just my pea brain thought process, I could be wrong, but after watching these boards for years, there is always one common denominator that you read....some colleges fill up faster than others, which translates to me that their demand is higher than supply, thus their stats maybe much higher academically, but statistically lower for chances to get a scholarship.
 
Will be thinking of you all today. :thumb:

January 2011 was one of the longest months of my life - February too! The waiting is so trying. My house was spotless, I lived on the boards and would honestly say I must have the record for most times refreshing/checking an online status in AROTC history :wink: Now, three years later it was worth it, even tho DS was NOT awarded a national AROTC scholarship. He is, however, thriving in his dream school as a MSIII anyway:thumb:

Keep warm - Ohio is pretty darn chilly right now - stay sane and most importantly just trust that no matter your results from this board that you and your family will be fine. The dream doesn't end with board results.

Take care:wave:

Just saw Pima's reference to the whole process being like birth - so very true and I'm sure when I see DS getting those long awaited butter bars it will be worth it:smile:
 
Pima said:
+1 Future

Many of us have walked down this road, and whether you get a congrats or sorry at this time....letter your Army career will begin next fall if you want it.

Scholarship recipients are the minority of the cadets at any unit. It has no bearing on your abikity to succeed once there. Some kids look better on paper, yet that does not translate with 100% certainty that they will be the best cadet. The only true impact that will occur with getting a scholarship is financial.
~~~ I don't know statistically the numbers, but many kids that don't get ROTC scholarships do get merit scholarships too, thus the impact maybe even less than you think.

Have a great day, as much as you can. Just remember that this roller coaster ride is just starting, you got four more years of meeting boards and waiting, with each board this one will look in hindsight as the least important you ever met.
~ For parents, think of this board like Braxton Hicks, and every board in ROTC as labor, cumulinating with the commission as the birth.
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+1 to Pima, my DS being a great example. Attended his #1 OOS college and participated in NROTC Marine Option as a college programmer... all being made possible by a merit scholarship from the school. Less than half of the entering freshman in his unit has scholarships, and half of them were gone by the end of the first semester. DS won an in-school (sideload) NROTC scholarship at the end of his first semester sophomore year. Winning the scholarship means you look good on paper, not necessarily in practice. It's the participation that reveals the practice part of things.

As a male I cannot relate at all to Pima's final comments, but if giving birth is anything like passing a kidney stone, then I'm there! :biggrin:
 
While we are killing time here awaiting the results...let's take a guess on the percentage of candidates that googled braxton hicks.

I am guessing 93.17542 percent.

My other parent reference goes out to parents that are going through it with a 2nd child. Only when you are going through it again do you remember the pain, and it comes back very fast...I.E. The board lights up with recipients, and there is no news for your child. All of the sudden, you remember everything you went through the last time, and the emotions and fears flood back in like it was yesterday.

Interesting the silence on this thread. My guess is many parents and kids are lurking here to see a new post, while they chew their fingernails off.
 
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