First, I do have to compliment the AROTC electronic application processing system. We had sent our transcript request form off to goaliegirl's a couple of weeks back and goaliegirl spent the past couple of weeks neatening up the personal statement and clarifying her sports participation and volunteer work on her application (they do limit you to a certain number of characters in the text sections).
I'm sitting there with her when she submits it the other night just after midnight and then both of us retire for the evening. Well, I go to work the next day and get a call from her in the early afternoon. She got the email notifying her that she can go ahead and schedule an interview with the PMS. OK, that's about 13 hours from submit through initial scoring to notification of status based upon self-reporting.
I'm not sure how much of this is hand scored, but I'm impressed by the speed of the whole thing.
Now for the next question.
What besides the interview stands between goaliegirl and being board reviewed?
Here are things that we haven't turned in...
1) Official ACT scores
2) APFT and/or Presidential Physical Fitness Scores
3) Height and Weight Certification
I am assuming at this point we will be getting the notification from Concorde? Correct? However, IIRC the DoDMERB process runs independent of the board selection process.
Here is what it comes down to. Goaliegirl has several more school visits to do and won't finish them until late October. She doesn't want to have to make a choice until she's had a chance to visit (and perhaps reprioritize) all her schools. And of course, it would be nice to know which coaches are interested in her.
So what do we delay to make sure she doesn't go to a board until November?
Certainly, delaying the PMS interview would accomplish this, but with her being away at school, getting her to an interview once school starts becomes more difficult.
Open to ideas and questions...
I'm sitting there with her when she submits it the other night just after midnight and then both of us retire for the evening. Well, I go to work the next day and get a call from her in the early afternoon. She got the email notifying her that she can go ahead and schedule an interview with the PMS. OK, that's about 13 hours from submit through initial scoring to notification of status based upon self-reporting.
I'm not sure how much of this is hand scored, but I'm impressed by the speed of the whole thing.
Now for the next question.
What besides the interview stands between goaliegirl and being board reviewed?
Here are things that we haven't turned in...
1) Official ACT scores
2) APFT and/or Presidential Physical Fitness Scores
3) Height and Weight Certification
I am assuming at this point we will be getting the notification from Concorde? Correct? However, IIRC the DoDMERB process runs independent of the board selection process.
Here is what it comes down to. Goaliegirl has several more school visits to do and won't finish them until late October. She doesn't want to have to make a choice until she's had a chance to visit (and perhaps reprioritize) all her schools. And of course, it would be nice to know which coaches are interested in her.
So what do we delay to make sure she doesn't go to a board until November?
Certainly, delaying the PMS interview would accomplish this, but with her being away at school, getting her to an interview once school starts becomes more difficult.
Open to ideas and questions...