2020-2021 ROTC Scholarship Board Dates

As it happens, DS came into the home office and told me his MOI had just called him. He did not receive one of the 22 sideloads given out from out 200 applicants in the Fall 2020 MO Sideload. Was told he'll be in the Spring pool which is said to issue more sideloads. The other applicant from SD consortium did receive one of the 22 and they were fairly evenly matched.
 
Torero_dad said:
Was told he'll be in the Spring pool which is said to issue more sideloads.
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Based on the past sideload numbers I saw early in the decade there are far fewer given in the fall, perhaps because the pool is smaller than the spring pool. The fall that DS was awarded a sideload only 9 were given nationwide.

Tell DS to hang tough and keep performing. Good things eventually come from hard work.
 
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Torero_dad said:
As it happens, DS came into the home office and told me his MOI had just called him. He did not receive one of the 22 sideloads given out from out 200 applicants in the Fall 2020 MO Sideload. Was told he'll be in the Spring pool which is said to issue more sideloads. The other applicant from SD consortium did receive one of the 22 and they were fairly evenly matched.
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Good luck! Tell him to keep up the hard work.
 
ThePilot18 said:
Pima has said: "Now, here is the thing. It is a queue system. They will meet for X amount of hours, and if they don't get through all of them, than the remaining applicants will go to the top of the pile to be reviewed at the next board."

https://www.serviceacademyforums.com/index.php?threads/2018-2019-afrotc-scholarship-boards.63180/
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kinnem said:
My understanding is that for all services applications are only boarded once. That being said, one must understand the technical meaning of boarding in this sense. Boarding means the board looks at the application and scores it. It's then placed in a stack of other boarded applications. At the end of the board the top x scored applications are awarded scholarships. The stack is retained for the remaining boards. Additional applications get added at the next board, and the remaining top y (including older applications from previous boards) are awarded a scholarship. Your score can be changed between boards by quantitative measurements (eg improved SAT/ACT scores), but it's never scored by the board again.

So, although an application is "boarded" only once, each board considers the application for a scholarship at the end of the scoring. This is why folks say to submit the best application you possibly can, as early as you can put that application together. If you submit too soon you will perhaps lose some "qualitative" points that you can't get back later, like you can "quantitative" like SAT and ACT.

I may have over-simplified, but that's essentially the process as I understand it. It works as a model in my head anyway.
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just re-reading how the ROTC board works and how notifications are made.....
 
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