Recent content by jebdad

I would tell you to plow forward, work hard and the chips will fall where they do. There will always be paths for you if something comes up, but, to me, that is no reason to choose one of those paths now and forego the great opportunity in front of you. Also, you should/will no longer be a...

Just a warning to go into this with eyes wide open with the chance there will be no scholarship qualification. The unit seeing your son perform is great but DODMERB will make the decision on medical. If it is a "condition" versus an injury, your son's performance in the unit would have little...

I would be important if you were transferring your scholarship from one school to another. When they are not in the same brigade it becomes more difficult due to two brigades having to approve it.

It would be interesting to know how many of the third board applicants are "new" applicants and not rollovers from first two boards. For many schools it would be late in the application/admission process at this point.

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When one of the ROOs sent a congratulatory note to my son, it said only 10% of applicants were award winners. Not sure if that is a typical number or not.

That is all true and great info. There appears to be a new approach this year due to need to shrink $$ and number of LTs. That didn't exist in recent times. Less scholarships offered so far and less 4 yr offers. It will be interesting to see the stats of offers and $$ vs prior years if we...

This is a great question. And given that this is unchartered territory, I think only those that are in current specific Army roles with inside info can really speak to this because this hasn't happened in prior years, at least not recently. That being said, I hope someone in the know chimes in...

It does make sense from a budgetary standpoint but from recruiting the top talent competing with Navy and Air Force it may be counterproductive.

I've been through this process a few times with my kids. My current applicant did not receive a scholarship for the first board and today learned of a 3-year offer as well. Their application this year was materially better than my other child who received a 4 yr on the first board just 3 years...

You had me excited for this week based on Friday's post. Today's post seems less confident on an imminent release. :( Darn.

Aren't you the same guy who said a while ago that you were told the delay was because of the sheer number of applicants? How are you now in possession of the administrative processing schedule?

The above is great advice. I have cow at USMA who said the same thing his first semester there. He applied to schools and was intent on transferring. Luckily, something deep inside him told him the paths he had in front of him outside of USMA were just a way to flee the immediate discomfort...

That makes sense. I am assuming that the schools that my son listed can see his application details. Not sure if you know the answer to this, but do the other units have the ability to see the application details of the cadets who applied but did not list their unit on their list of schools?

It is ironic/interesting that with the uncertainty of the national scholarship at the moment, my son still keeps getting emails from AROTC units at schools he did not even list asking him to consider their school for his scholarship (that he hasn't even been awarded yet).