AROTC Application complete and in for the OCT board...question

warrior44

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Ok, my son has finished everything and now we are awaiting the results of the OCT board. I understand if we are selected for a scholarship that we will know sometime around Thanksgiving.

My question is this: Will they only award 4 year scholarships from the OCT AROTC board results or will they also offer 3 years scholarships? Follow-up question - If my son only gets offered a 3 year at this OCT board, can he continue to update his file and try to "upgrade" to a 4 year in the following boards? Thank you in advance.
 
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Ok, my son has finished everything and now we are awaiting the results of the OCT board. I understand if we are selected for a scholarship that we will know sometime around Thanksgiving.

My question is this: Will they only award 4 year scholarships from the OCT AROTC board results or will they also offer 3 years scholarships? Follow-up question - If my son only gets offered a 3 year at this OCT board, can he continue to update his file and try to "upgrade" to a 4 year in the following boards? Thank you in advance.

Things could change from year to year, however, for the past 2 years, virtually every single first round winner for AROTC scholarship was given 4-year scholarships and could choose between 3 different schools from their list. If your DS were to be awarded a 3-year scholarship at the first board, then he will not be re-boarded again to try to get a 4-year scholarship. There have been situations, however, where 3-year scholarship winners have been "upgraded" to 3 1/2 or 4 year winners, at the same time that the 3rd board results were released.
 
Typically when your son's stutus changes to "boarded" you can't change anything on the portal after that. I'm sure there are some exceptions. Just an example. My son received a 3 year ad scholarship. Upon arriving at school and crushing the pt test, he was upgraded on campus to a 3.5 year ad scholarship. There are folks who last year had a 3 year awarded, who received word in April or may they had been upgraded to a 4 year. Good luck.

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