eljay60
AFROTC parent, former ANC in USAR
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2016
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I believe this year ECP scholarships were also offered on the 2nd and 3rd boards, not just the first.
The logic of waiting until the second board to submit your application wouldn't necessarily do anything for or against you. You still might have ended up with no offer at all, even an ECP offer.
Look at it this way, if you received a 3yr offer on the first board and turned it down hoping to get a 4 yr offer on the 2nd or 3rd board, your chances of getting that 2nd offer are not very good.
There are always people that have strong applications that do not get offered anything. Many of them feel they might have a stronger application than those that received an offer. There is not a magical equation for receiving any offer, sometimes it's just the interpretation of the application by people that review them.
I agree and understand that if you checked NO for interest in the ECP scholarship on your application that it is confusing as to why that offer is made anyways, other than the board feels that is the best offer they can make you.
The difference is accepting a three year offer does not kick you out of consideration for a four year. In this case, candidates applied for an apple and were offered an orange, even though they said citrus gives them heartburn. And were there unsought ECP offers from the 2nd and 3rd boards? I know this forum is a small cross section but I was looking, and did not see anyone asking questions after those boards.