1. Work on your CFA. Run in the rain, run at the hottest time of the day. Run at 5:30 a.m. after playing Xbox until midnight Do it in the order and within the time constraints required. At the same time start practicing the PFA (ROTC). You cannot use the CFA for the PFA.
~ You will schedule that CFA and it could rain or be 95 degreess, thus your run could be slower because you only ran when it was perfect weather. You could do the CFA the afternoon after you stayed up late to finish something (essays) and are exhausted. It doesn't matter because the fact is when you get to BCT or AFROTC you are going to do the CFA or PFA and they don't care whether you are exhausted or it is raining/too hot. You either pass or you fail.
2. Work on the essays.
~ Please take this advice, DON'T POST IT ON HERE and ask everyone to review it. Multiple reasons, but impo the biggest is this is an anonymous forum. There could be other 17/18 yo candidates reviewing it, iows your peers or in my eyes the blind leading the blind. Additionally, someone may think WOW and lift parts of your essay...sorry, but I am not naïve and I am a little cynical. For all you know that other person (poster/lurker) will take it and run with it...MoC committees can read both and think HMMM, which one is the real author?
~~ My DS had an amazing ALO, he met with his candidates bi-monthly to review their essays. He did not allow them to duplicate any essay (USAFA or the 3 MoCs). If I say that he edited, re-edited, and re-edited 3 or 4 times it would not be an exaggeration.
3. Get those medical records in order now!
~ Too many candidates get caught on the simple things...prescribed an inhaler at 13, still have it re-filled, play soccer, LAX, etc, and never used it, but now I am hit with a remedial at best, DQ at worst. This goes for concussions too!
~~ If you have not had an eye exam by an optometrist, and your folks can afford it, GO NOW! Use the search tab here and you will see (no pun intended) that many candidates never realized they have vision issues, be it color deficiency, astigmatism or whatever the parameters that have been set.
4. Start the ROTC scholarship application. I know nobody wants to hear/read it, but the fact is many will go Plan B, C or D.
~ USAFA and AFROTC do not talk. They have no clue if you are applying to one or both. AFROTC selection process is completely different, it is not only the PFA that is different, but AFROTC does not superscore. AFROTC only includes a new SAT/ACT from your senior yr, nothing else. AFROTC cares about your intended major when it comes to selection.
~~ Contact your top schools (plan B) Contact that det. Be prepared they are typically a skeleton crew during the summer, so it could be a little difficult.
~~~They are not allowed to go on vacation when school is in session. ADAF tends to move them in the summer, so some will be moving out while the new person is not there yet. Or the new person has not learned all of the ropes yet, thus it could take them time to respond.
~~~~ Contacting them directly may open you to a little hidden gem regarding AFROTC scholarships, but beware it is a double edge sword. It is called the ICSP. In College Scholarship Program. In essence, the AFROTC det. CoC will say you are my pick and give you free tuition regardless of how much it may cost. The problem is you have about 1 week to accept, and once you do, HQ AFROTC will remove you from the HSSP. If the college does not accept you, than you are SOL. Before you ask...if you are appointed to ANY SA than you can walk from the scholarship.
I hope this helps. Good luck and thank you for wanting to defend this amazing nation.