It looks like they have changed the board schedule this year.
This is my key pet peeve regarding the AROTC scholarship application and selection process.
I don't understand why do NOT make it crystal clear on their OWN web site how scholarship application and selection process works.
Why does it have to be the case that people are learning about this critical piece of information (multiple boards and their deadlines) through words of mouth? Applying for an earlier board confers SO MANY advantages to the applicant. Many popular battalions/schools run out of space in later board. Why are they NOT making it clear on the application web site that there are multiple boards and at each board scholarships are awarded, and here are the deadlines for each board, etc.
A hapless student who faithfully goes by what's on the web site will think Jan 10 or whatever date they are listing on the web site means, it works like all other deadlines are supposed to work: as long as you meet the deadline, there is NO opportunity lost by not submitting the paperwork earlier. This is how most college applications processes work with very few exceptions, and if there is a rolling admission, they clearly say so so that everybody is on an even playing field.
My son learned about all this early enough that it did not matter, but good candidate can find himself/herself seriously disadvantaged because s/he honestly thought that the web site provided all the information they needed.
A good friend of my son's, a year senior to him, did not know about this multiple boards process. Thought that as long as he met the official deadline, it would be fine, and later learned that all the schools he put on the school choice form more or less filled their slots during the earlier boards. He had no reason to believe that there was vast "underground" process that rewards those in the "know" of this unpublished process.