AFROTC February/March Board 2024

DD not selected. Also received NROTC ISR and AROTC scholarships, LOAs at both West Point and USAFA, and rare medical waiver from USAFA.
 
jbm2m said:
DD not selected. Also received NROTC ISR and AROTC scholarships, LOAs at both West Point and USAFA, and rare medical waiver from USAFA.
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This is crazy. It certainly sounds like there were no winners today.
 
Texark147 said:
This is crazy. It certainly sounds like there were no winners today.
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Yeah… we felt pretty confident given everything plus the feedback given by AFROTC interviewer (pretty much “you are going to be a great Air Force officer and I look forward to seeing your name on that list”)
 
jbm2m said:
Yeah… we felt pretty confident given everything plus the feedback given by AFROTC interviewer (pretty much “you are going to be a great Air Force officer and I look forward to seeing your name on that list”)
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These kids put a lot of work into those interviews and applications. If there weren't any winners on this board, something went very wrong.
 
lakelife said:
I do see a few people added their names to the AF ROTC 2028 class thread since 3/31, though I don't know when their scholarship was awarded. Maybe the acceptances went out previously, and the rejections went out today.
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I apologize; I think I was looking at the Army ROTC list of scholarship winners. I actually cannot find a list of 2028 AF ROTC scholarship winners, though I know some were awarded in late 2023. I just don't know if any were awarded in this last board round.
 
jbm2m said:
Yeah… we felt pretty confident given everything plus the feedback given by AFROTC interviewer (pretty much “you are going to be a great Air Force officer and I look forward to seeing your name on that list”)
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My son got great feedback, too. I knew being reviewed at the later board was riskier, but...
 
lakelife said:
My son got great feedback, too. I knew being reviewed at the later board was riskier, but...
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Man, I just saw all your posts about the March Board response, so I went and checked mine. That "Not Selected" hit pretty hard. I missed the National AFROTC scholarship. The detachment head that interviewed me offered their Commanders scholarship to me. However, accepting it would've pulled me from the National board. Now that I've been rejected, that one goes too. No feedback from USAFA yet either. Things are looking rough. To everyone else in similar situations, I hope you guys find the shining light amidst it all, and in the case of USAFA applicants in the pending zone, your portal updates with a gold letter, containing the decision every one of us applicants wish for. Good luck guys.
 
DS received Navy and Army 4-year scholarships to an out of state private college. Denied for AFROTC. It stings as a former AFROTC cadre member. Oh well… everything happens for a reason!
 
Seems like they haven't been publicizing it as much externally (makes sense because it's not the best PR), but internally we've been told that AFROTC has been trying to shift towards giving more in-college scholarships to those cadets that they've been able to observe for a year or two instead of making bets on high schoolers who may have good grades but haven't had any chance to prove officership potential. I know for my class year (current college seniors), this wasn't the case and I know off the top of my head at least 3 high school scholarship winners who are not longer in the program and a few others who are barely scraping by. On the other hand, a lot of our highest performers didn't come in with a scholarship and now have one.

At the end of the day, if you make it through the first two years and complete field training, at the very least you'll get a CMLA scholarship which will pay $18k/yr for 2 years. Best case, after your first full year, if you're fully DoDMERB qualified, have a good PFA score, and are ranked fairly high in your class year, you can pick up better scholarships that are similar to HSSP.

I know this isn't what most people on this forum want to hear as it's almost exclusively high schoolers and their parents here, but I hope that this was helpful based off of what they've been telling us cadets over the past 2 years with these scholarship shifts. Look for other scholarship opportunities or pick up loans if needed, but if the end goal is a USAF or USSF commission, the DAF will help you get there and try to take off some of those financial burdens, especially towards the end. I started off paying for 100% of school when I came in and I now 4 years later am fully covered through various scholarships.
 
Not selected.

Not surprised w/ DS being non-stem. But, I def admit feeling disappointed at the lack of AF love after DS’s four year drive to do all the things and exceed the criteria. It’s how things go, and barring an April USAFA appointment, DS will turn his sights to USMA and make that the new dream. Pivot.
 
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