January 4, 2011 AROTC Board
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OliverCromwell
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Yes, Olddave, I am currently waiting for a medical waiver from the AROTC after being denied by the DoDMERB for a vision requirement (myopia). Their website is down and I too find it frustrating that I cannot check the status of my medical qualification. One would assume that our depart of defense could get a website running after three weeks... one can only hope. Good Luck.
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Checked my status today and I got an offer to my first choice, Oregon State University! 
dodmerb waiver info.
Even though the dodmerb website is down, I e-mailed Mr. Mullen, deputy director of dodmerb, and he responded within 24 hours with my son's dodmerb status. So I recommend anyone waiting to see their status on the website might consider doing what we did.
Even though the dodmerb website is down, I e-mailed Mr. Mullen, deputy director of dodmerb, and he responded within 24 hours with my son's dodmerb status. So I recommend anyone waiting to see their status on the website might consider doing what we did.
Good news
We were one of the folks who had good news which was incomplete, specifically, my son got the "good status change", but no indication of whether it was for a 3 or 4 year scholarship.
He finally received a call today from the PMS at his school (#1 choice, although an in state school) that he was one of 3 awarded a 4 year scholarship. He said that there were 400 applicants, but that seems unbelievably high to me.
We were one of the folks who had good news which was incomplete, specifically, my son got the "good status change", but no indication of whether it was for a 3 or 4 year scholarship.
He finally received a call today from the PMS at his school (#1 choice, although an in state school) that he was one of 3 awarded a 4 year scholarship. He said that there were 400 applicants, but that seems unbelievably high to me.
sg1fan93
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It actually probably was that high. I've heard that somewhere that there are 10000-15000 applicants each year, so anyone who received a scholarship should be EXTREMELY proud of themselves or their children, and anyone who didn't shouldn't fret too much.
dogdoc,
Depending on the size and type of school 400 applicants seems about right. Remember that number includes every applicant that listed the school on their list. Some may have listed the school as a #1 and some as #7 and everywhere in between. My son was selected on the first board and some of the schools already had over 100 for the first board alone.
Consider that there are on average 10,000 + applicants that start the application process just for West Point, and I understand that most if not all apply for AROTC as a back up. Add to that number the amount off applicants that don't apply to the SA and you can imagine the total number of applicants being well over 20,000 per year, add into that the current economy and it could be even higher. The sheer numbers really highlights that this is not an easy scholarship to receive.
Patentesq,
I don't know for sure about the schedule for getting letters out for this board, I can tell you how it went the first board.
Status changed on Nov. 15th
Letter dated Nov. 19th arrived Nov. 21st
Deadline to accept or decline was Dec. 19th. (Basically 30 days from the date on the letter.)
30 days seemed like a long time until we had to schedule a quick trip to Fla. to visit a school. Glad we had a good trip because he decided not to go to that school.
jagabiti
I don't think there is a way to tell how many scholarships were 3yr and 4yr, at least not at this time. The first board gave 460 scholarship offers, 400 were accepted. From what Marist has posted around 800 offers were made this board, some of the 800 will not accept due to various reasons. The total scholarships so far look to be at a maximum of around 1200, if they stick to there earlier projections that should mean there is a large amount left to be offered, only this year, who knows for sure.
Depending on the size and type of school 400 applicants seems about right. Remember that number includes every applicant that listed the school on their list. Some may have listed the school as a #1 and some as #7 and everywhere in between. My son was selected on the first board and some of the schools already had over 100 for the first board alone.
Consider that there are on average 10,000 + applicants that start the application process just for West Point, and I understand that most if not all apply for AROTC as a back up. Add to that number the amount off applicants that don't apply to the SA and you can imagine the total number of applicants being well over 20,000 per year, add into that the current economy and it could be even higher. The sheer numbers really highlights that this is not an easy scholarship to receive.
Patentesq,
I don't know for sure about the schedule for getting letters out for this board, I can tell you how it went the first board.
Status changed on Nov. 15th
Letter dated Nov. 19th arrived Nov. 21st
Deadline to accept or decline was Dec. 19th. (Basically 30 days from the date on the letter.)
30 days seemed like a long time until we had to schedule a quick trip to Fla. to visit a school. Glad we had a good trip because he decided not to go to that school.
jagabiti
I don't think there is a way to tell how many scholarships were 3yr and 4yr, at least not at this time. The first board gave 460 scholarship offers, 400 were accepted. From what Marist has posted around 800 offers were made this board, some of the 800 will not accept due to various reasons. The total scholarships so far look to be at a maximum of around 1200, if they stick to there earlier projections that should mean there is a large amount left to be offered, only this year, who knows for sure.
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Thanks, Jcleppe! I recall those dates from an earlier post. I was just trying to see if anyone had received the written offer letter (I'm dying to look at it and see what terms are). I was also curious if CC has shortened the response time because we are jammed up against the March 8 board now, and I expect that CC will want to know how many accept/declines there are before making more offers. I heard that the letters went out on Friday (also heard Monday) from ROOs, so tomorrow should be about time for folks to start the "mailman safari"!
AHHH help!
I recieved the 3 year scholarship to two schools that werent on my list!! I called the PMS at my #1 and he said that he might be able to get the scholarship transferred if I gave my acceptance letter with my scholarship offer letter to him to send to cadet command...idk...what's the likelyhood of this working out?
I recieved the 3 year scholarship to two schools that werent on my list!! I called the PMS at my #1 and he said that he might be able to get the scholarship transferred if I gave my acceptance letter with my scholarship offer letter to him to send to cadet command...idk...what's the likelyhood of this working out?
I would really doubt they will shorten the deadline time, if anything they will probably extend offers after the dust has settled. Last year some kids received an offer all the way into June. Makes it tough on those kids that need to commit to a school in May.
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Was that just national scholarships? There are quite a lot of in-school 4, and 3.5 year scholarships as well.
BTW - I was told that the board results for March will be out by April 1st.
4 year
Article from earlier in this thread said 4 year scholarships worth about 51.2 million.
Article from earlier in this thread said 4 year scholarships worth about 51.2 million.
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Boy Floridadad, I hope your info is good. Hate to see the Jan board get shorted on time, but 4/1 would work for me/DS
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Yep, it was four year national scholarships from the boards. There are quite a few four year in-school scholarships awarded, plus 3/3.5 year varieties as well. The local college here in Tampa had 10 in school scholarships for freshman last fall and they returned two of them to CC.
They told you that USF had 10 in school scholarships for last year? That number is a lot higher than both what we were told as well as 2 other applicants last year. I, still trying to find the email i have so I can put the exact numbers. IIRC, there were 15 allocation for the 4 year given by CC and a small amount of in school.
A Gift
That would be very encouraging if they could get the last board results out by 4/1 as it would be a gift to all families involved so plans could be made. Also we would realize there was a method to their madness all along.
Boy Floridadad, I hope your info is good. Hate to see the Jan board get shorted on time, but 4/1 would work for me/DS
That would be very encouraging if they could get the last board results out by 4/1 as it would be a gift to all families involved so plans could be made. Also we would realize there was a method to their madness all along.