From my understanding (and reading the announcement email three years ago), that's correct. They upgrade the top 3 year winners to reach 1000 4 year scholarships awarded. That was a glorious day for us parents and an "oh, by the way" announcement to us from my cadet, lol.
So, does anyone know definitively whether getting a 3-year offer on the second board an indication you have a better chance of getting bumped up to a 4-year in March?
Your stats are similar to my daughter's, plus she's a recruited DI athlete to her #1 school, where she is academically well above the average, and a female engineering major. The ROO literally said "oh man, you'll get a 3-4 year scholarship and then {Ivy in same state} will come calling." It appears that she did not get a scholarship, and has emailed her ROO.
All applicants are ranked. The 2nd board leaves some 4 years to be awarded on the 3rd board. those new 3rd board applicants are placed in the ranking order and 4 year scholarships are awarded from top down. If you got a 3 year on the second board you may or may not be near the cut off for 4 years and you may or may not be upped to a 4 year. My advice is be happy with the 3 year. There are many people here who would be thrilled to have your 3 year scholarship right now. If you get upped to a 4 year that’s a bonus, but shouldn’t be expected unless your application puts you closer to the top.
That is very surprising and makes me wonder if there weren't some mistakes made when the portal went down.
My hope is that whatever errors they mentioned on the banner involve people like me and your daughter, and I get a surprise email saying I awarded a scholarship on Monday or something. Its not the end of the world though, and there is still March.
This is crazy honestly, I also thought i had really good stats for this application but I guess you really never know.
Oh, no scholarship for our family. 1520 SAT, 3.5ish unweighted, single-sport national level DI athlete. Not super strong on the leadership, great interview and good PT score maxing 2 categories, although I'm not sure what exact score was. I suppose the ROO saying "I'd be baffled" if you don't get a scholarship did not deserve the weight we gave it.
Do not despair just yet! There is still the March board. I'm confident that you, me and everyone else here that did not receive a scholarship will get one after the March board.Oh, no scholarship for our family. 1520 SAT, 3.5ish unweighted, single-sport national level DI athlete. Not super strong on the leadership, great interview and good PT score maxing 2 categories, although I'm not sure what exact score was. I suppose the ROO saying "I'd be baffled" if you don't get a scholarship did not deserve the weight we gave it.
Yes by 3/9 unless the scholarship you won was an ECP/minuteman scholarship.
. I ran 6:10, but as a track athlete my actual PR is 4:53 so I was wondering if it makes a difference if I go all out. Aside from these is there anything else I can do to strengthen my application.
Good to know. DS is still waiting on West Point & don’t know if he will receive a response before the due date.
My DS is waiting on academy appointments too, but is going to accept his scholarship.
My son also having the same issue, cannot log in saying his password is incorrect.
