NROTC notification

I agree with Kinnem that only a small percentage use this site. On the day this thread reported 2 NROTC scholarships, our high school alone received 3 scholarships, including our son.
 
Congrats to all of you who received your award notifications!! My son completed his officer interview late September and is anxiously awaiting a response. He checks the website everyday and at this point it shows the decision as "undecided." May I ask how you were notified that you were awarded the scholarship (mail, email, etc)? Thanks!
 
Our Son in PA received notification today of 4Yr scholarship to SDSU his first choice. Still waiting on USNA but to say the least we are proud. Notification email around 1:30 EST
 
Me too CPT86. These kids are all amazing whether they get scholarship or not. How proud you all SHOULD be that they even pursue this. I try not to post much here because I didn't want to jinx my son. Great to think hes 2+ months into his senior year and he has something set up. Now for Plan A (USNA) to come through as well as for plan for C and D.
 
shanim1 said:
Congrats to all of you who received your award notifications!! My son completed his officer interview late September and is anxiously awaiting a response. He checks the website everyday and at this point it shows the decision as "undecided." May I ask how you were notified that you were awarded the scholarship (mail, email, etc)? Thanks!
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My son received an email from his recruiter the morning of Oct 7 and then checked the website. It was updated to read "Congratulations, you have been awarded...." He received an official email from the Navy later that afternoon.
 
My son received his NROTC scholarship to his 5th place school. USC. His 1st place school was UVA which is in state. Curious to know why he would receive a scholarship to USC which is much more expensive when both colleges are similarly ranked. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
 
Almost certainly it's because the other schools have no NROTC slots available. You can always try to transfer but I don't think they start addressing those until April.
 
Thanks for the prompt reply, Kinnem. That makes sense. I guess I just thought it was early enough in the process that schools 1-4 would have slots available. Plus, my DD applied around the same time a few years ago and got her 1st choice school. I guess we just took that for granted!
 
Captainpete86 said:
Congratulations to all, well done!
Hope this is the beginning of the second wave of notifications!
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Appears to be a new wave hitting now... DS received his notification yesterday on being selected for 4-year NROTC scholarship at 1st choice school, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona (was already admitted into ERAU's Aerospace engineering program last month). Still holding onto USNA dream, though. Senator Rubio interview tomorrow am.
 
hopeful1998 said:
FYI - NROTC notifications are on the way. I'm so very thrilled for DS. He just texted me from school and said that he was awarded a 4 year NROTC scholarship to Georgia Tech - his first choice. Thanks all for all the great advice! Still lots of work to do - namely his common app! Oh, and waiting for word from USNA - but its much easier with this under his belt.
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What were his stats?
 
Michael R. said:
hopeful1998 said:
FYI - NROTC notifications are on the way. I'm so very thrilled for DS. He just texted me from school and said that he was awarded a 4 year NROTC scholarship to Georgia Tech - his first choice. Thanks all for all the great advice! Still lots of work to do - namely his common app! Oh, and waiting for word from USNA - but its much easier with this under his belt.
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What were his stats?
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MichaelR -

4.4W/3.9 U
35 E /34M - 33 Composite ACT
7 full year AP's - including physics, chem and 2 calcs and english
Eagle Scout
Boys State
Student government treasurer
5 Varsity letters - soccer and track
HS soccer team captain - 1 year
Club soccer team captain - 3 years
part time job
App completed in August

All is not perfect though - waiting anxiously for a NROTC waiver approval for an old football injury. We are all waiting on something and feeling the stress of it, so best of luck to you!!
 
How are ppl hearing so quickly? When do most know by? My son completed his application and favorable interview in Aug and his application is still saying no decision is made as of today.
 
flying8764 said:
How are ppl hearing so quickly? When do most know by? My son completed his application and favorable interview in Aug and his application is still saying no decision is made as of today.
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In reality, most will not know until late spring when they do not receive it.
There will be more boards along the way until then... Just have to wait until the results pop out because the Navy doesnt publish dates for this
 
flying8764 said:
How are ppl hearing so quickly? When do most know by? My son completed his application and favorable interview in Aug and his application is still saying no decision is made as of today.
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Based upon the overall budget, there is a determination of how many total NROTC scholarships will be awarded. During each board, the committee reviews a certain number of applications and they score them. They usually have specific total file score threshold that they are looking for in order to award a scholarship. Those applicants whose files were awarded a high enough score, are awarded a scholarship during the board where there files is reviewed. The rest of the files who were reviewed, but didn't have a high enough score, are set aside until later. With each board (every few weeks), they do the same thing. Through each board, they are looking for the candidates that meet the high score threshold. More kids continue to complete their applications up until the deadline. Some of these later submitters will have very high scores, so the board doesn't start lowering their target scholarship cut-off score until later. If towards the end of the scholarship boards, all of the scholarships have not been awarded, (as not enough applicants had that high score that they had originally set) then the threshold is lowered and they look at the scores of all those files they reviewed through the whole scholarship cycle, and they start awarding scholarships to those whose scores were the next highest. They continue down the line until all of the scholarships are awarded. My guess would be that if an application was submitted very early in the scholarship cycle that it has already been boarded and scored (but a scholarship has not yet been awarded) and it will probably be late in the scholarship cycle when the scholarship will be awarded (if awarded). The thing we don't know however, is where the board is in the files that have been reviewed (i.e. have they already gotten through all of them that were submitted through July, August, or September already?) Last year my DS's application was completed mid-September and he found out he was awarded the scholarship on October 10th.
 
I received one to Cornell ( I was ISR recipient though)- that might be why some are hearing early!
 
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