My son took the 5 Credit Beginning Arabic class the first semester of this year. Have your son make sure the Admin person in the cadre fills out all the paperwork correctly and submits everything on time, The paperwork can get a bit complicated.
Son did receive the $250.00 per sredit hour, on thing to remember is that when the Army pays $1000.00 or more at one time there are Fed. Income Taxes taken out. If he happens to be going out of state and the state has an income tax they will take that out as well. Since most cadets don't make that much taxable income in a year they will most likely get all but SS and Medicare dollars back as well as state taxes.
Just thought I would bring that up, son was a bit surprised when a large chunk was taken out up front.
Clarkson,
You are so right, we thought we had the process figured out from wneh our older son went through the Scholarship process in 2008, only to find out the whole thing had changed the next year.