October 2010 AROTC Board Decision

I just want to second the advice from GoalieDad and Educateme to contact the ROOs at your higher target schools.

Last year my daughter received a 3-year AD to her #1 school. We really needed a 4-year scholarship due to the cost of this school. After several discussions with the PMS he worked a deal in which he used funds from a scholarship that was not accepted at his school for that board to increase her offer from 3 to 4 years.

Perhaps there is a way within the next 30 days (During which offers are accepted/rejected) one of your higher choice schools might be able to extend an offer to your son if one of their active offers is turned down. I had the sense last year that there is some wiggle room within this 30-day period. The key to anything is connecting with the ROO/PMS.

Good luck!
 
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I believe that the letter states that if you do not reply within 30 Days you lose your scholarship. Obviously, there will always be a few exceptions, but just be careful and get things done as soon as possible.
 
No change yet

I suspect that my son will not get a scholarship offer from the October Board. I has been almost a month since the board and nothing has changed on his status.

However, he has a 3.62 GPA, 26 on ACT, Eagle Scout, ECs, volunteer work and one varsity sport. So I am hopeful that he will get an offer in January.

Hanging in there.
 
arotc october boards

My son's status changed last week on the website to the check the DoDMERB note and then on Saturday the army rotc scholarship status changed to he was awarded the 4 year scholarship to his number one choice (Georgetown). Very exciting! The official letter came on Monday, November 22nd and was dated 11/19/10. We have 30 days to respond. My question is what do we do if he does not get into his first choice school? No other schools were listed on his acceptance letter. Is that the way it is normally done that if you get your number one choice you are not given any other schools? Would we have to wait til April to see if there are openings at the other schools he's interested in? Finally, does the PMS have any pull with the admissions offices? my son has very high credentials including a 4.0 avg and a 34 on the ACT.
 
carolyn loftus said:
My question is what do we do if he does not get into his first choice school? No other schools were listed on his acceptance letter. Is that the way it is normally done that if you get your number one choice you are not given any other schools?
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Some students get one offer, some get five. It varies and is determined by both credentials and the type of schools listed. Since you have one offer you should take it. You have nothing to lose.

carolyn loftus said:
Would we have to wait til April to see if there are openings at the other schools he's interested in?
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You will probably need to wait until late May. At that point there can be some swapping of scholarships across schools. If your son does not get into Georgetown, or decides he wants to go to another school you will have a chance to make a switch. To do that, he should develop a relationship with the PMS at school he wants to attend.

carolyn loftus said:
Finally, does the PMS have any pull with the admissions offices? my son has very high credentials including a 4.0 avg and a 34 on the ACT.
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In some cases they do. The fact that he got the offer indicates the PMS thinks he can be admitted. I would immediately contact the PMS to see what he can do. Also, it may be the case that other schools on your son's list saw he was getting the offer from Georgetown and decided they were not likely to compete with that so they did not make an offer.

In all the discussions about how scholarships are awarded it has occured to me that PMSs act based on the Nash equilibrium. If you saw the movie, "A Beautiful Mind" you will recall this theory states that in a game players act based on what is best for them AND take into account what others in the game will also do. I think many PMSs act this way. They may look at a candidate and really like them, but if they see a "better" school is making an offer they will also consider whether they can really land that applicant; they may decide to make an offer to a less qualified candidate that they have greater confidence they can get a committment from.
 
Disappointed with ROTC Scholarship Offers

If you have been disappointed so far in the results of the Scholarship Boards, you should reshuffle your school choices so that more inexpensive schools are listed on top.
 
Marist College ROTC said:
If you have been disappointed so far in the results of the Scholarship Boards, you should reshuffle your school choices so that more inexpensive schools are listed on top.
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I would disagree to a point. ROTC also gives scholarships to more expensive schools. Personally, I wouldn't switch to schools to somewhere I wouldn't enjoy college just cause I might get a scholarship because it is cheaper. Cost is not the only factor considered when giving out scholarships.
 
every single one of the schools on my son's school of intent list was a very expensive private school. He was offered a 4 year scholarship to 3 of the top 4 schools on his list.

I am going to speculate a bit here.

Based on everything I have learned, the issue of the cost of the school affects the number of scholarships the CC allocates to that school. From that point on, the CC is going to allocate that quota to the applicants who put that school on the list, provided that the PMS of the school said "OK" to the applicant, and they are going to do it by the OML. Suppose the quota for that school for the board is 4. If an applicant's OML rank is within 4 among the applicants who put that school on the list and got an "OK" from the PMS, the applicant is going to get the scholarship. If not, s/he won't.

I highly doubt the CC is going to look at a particular individual applicant and say "Aha, this kid put expensive schools as his top choices, but in order to save money, we are going to give him the scholarship to an in state public school".

Their cost objective is met by putting a quota on expensive schools. They don't have to tweak individual candidate's scholarship school list.

This is my speculation: obviously, I have NO insider's knowledge. But it does make sense, doesn't it? Of course, if there are folks who have insider's knowledge who can refute what I am saying here, that trumps my speculation.

A takeaway here is this: When you put a school of intent list, get some feel for the quota for the school. My son called and asked the PMSs of various schools how many scholarship cadets they have for the most recent school year (actual number and the quota). What we found out is, in general, among expensive private schools, the schools that actually host the battalion (not the cross town affiliate schools) have the most "generous" quota. As such, on the school of intent list, all but one school were schools that actually host the battalion. this is where the strategy element comes into play. We figured simply, statistically speaking, you are better off competing for a larger pool of finite resources.
 
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I don't know how they decide, but in my d's case the first public less costly school was bypassed and she was given the most expensive private that included a room stipend from the school. Worked out for the best for us
 
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