AFROTC Scholarship chances?

I should also mention that when I was like 12 me and my friend were playing with airsoft guns and somebody called the cops on us.

I got brought into the station, no handcuffs or anything just drove int he back of the cop car. They said it would not go on my record. I signed something and I was let go.

Do I need to tell them this when they ask about civil incidents or w/e it is they ask about law run ins?
 
You were 12, 12 yo do stupid things. No need to go that far back in your life. Now if you said you got pulled for vandalism at 16 that would be a different story, but 12 yo no need to go that far back.
 
Do I need to tell them this when they ask about civil incidents or w/e it is they ask about law run ins?

IMHO
You should answer questions honestly and accurately,
But do not confuse the issue, The question on the AROTC application is specific;
"Have you ever been arrested, convicted or fined for any violation of Law?"

If you have been arrested, convicted or fined you need to bring it up and explain it.
If not (like your incident)- it's not relevant.
 
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great advice guys. thanks for the eight pages of help! There is some true dedication on this forum.

I have my interview in about 4 hours so wish me luck!
 
Good luck!

Remember:

1. Stop for a second before you respond to their answer.

2. Try to limit, well, um, uhs, like and you know in your responses. Nothing is more annoying, than to hear: Well, when we lived in Fl, it was like, um a sauna, because uh, you know the humidity is so um high and uh, well that made me sweat.

See #1.

3. They are not your enemy. Walk in and pretend they are your favorite HS teacher. Talk to them like you would talk to that teacher.

The more comfortable you are the better it will go.

Again good luck!
 
Well im all done with the interview! It went quite well

He told me before we began that he is a very hard interviewer, not because he doesnt like applicants, but because he wants US to learn something about OURSELVES

He only asked me about 4 questions, but they were all hard and I had to think in order to give a good answer

When it was over he told me that it was a great interview, and that I am a very "confident young man"

He said that a lot of kids would kind of look down when answering questions and give half ass responses while I looked him straight in the eye and gave straight forward answers. He did however tell me that my GPA and sit ups were weak

so overall I think the interview was good but I the problems that I have are my gpa and my sit ups.
 
he was like "do you know how hard it is to get a pilot slot?" and I replied "Yeah you have to be at the top of your class" and he said "try top 1%"

Does this mean top 1% of your det or top 1% of your college class haha

Also he said that out of like 5000 rotc cadets, only 2400 got field training slots! Dang!
 
also, Pima, You are SO RIGHT about them asking anything they want

1. Not a single question anyone has told me to be prepared for was asked
2. He asked me "What are the three words in the english language that start with 'dw'?"

Random, right?
 
2. He asked me "What are the three words in the english language that start with 'dw'?"

Come on. Dwarf, dwindle, dwell. Everyone knows that off the top of their head. Jeez, man. :yllol::thumb: (JK!)

Congrats on a good interview anyway!!
 
he was like "do you know how hard it is to get a pilot slot?" and I replied "Yeah you have to be at the top of your class" and he said "try top 1%"

Does this mean top 1% of your det or top 1% of your college class haha

Actually it means the top 1% of all AFROTC cadets nation wide. I disagree with that number, I would put it at top 10%.

Caveat: Dets matter. Some dets will traditionally have higher % than others. You want UI, it might be from a traditional stance that they are on the low end %.

VT has a higher % than ERAU, but ERAU has more cadets that get UPT in numbers.

He also may have been thinking fighters, in this case he is right 1% would be correct...10% get UPT, and 10% of them get fighters...that equals 1%.

Also he said that out of like 5000 rotc cadets, only 2400 got field training slots! Dang!

This is true. Only about 50% get SFT. That decision is based on a lot of things, but the big 3 are GPA, AFOQT and AFPT.

They score everyone, and draw a line for the amount of slots available. If nationally you rank number 2401, your are SOL and will not be going.

This is where it starts to hurt for your future AF career. You return to school as a C300 in Sept., by Jan. they submit your for the flying AFSC. If you did not attend SFT and want that pilot slot, but 6 others went out 10. You are missing a big X in your resume. The flight board is not just about flying, it is about the best officers who want to fly. They will get points for their training and you won't. Commanders write recs for AFSC, why should they as an officer support someone who didn't make the list for SFT for flying over the cadet that did?

AFROTC is not much different than AF AD world. What you accomplished in the past will be put into the equation.

The thing I have seen not only on boards like this, but even with our DS's friends. They take engineering because it gives them the best chance for a scholarship, only to get there and struggle because engineering was not a match for them academically.

They live 4 yrs in constant stress and hating life because day in day out they are calculating their gpa figuring out what will happen if I get a C in this course, what do I need to get in my other classes to balance it out?

Tech majors get an edge for UPT, but if your gpa is low that edge will not help you out.

Also, fyi, AFROTC cadets who want to fly should take some ppl lessons because those hours are taken into account when you take the TBCM (I think that is the name) as a C300. You bring in the pilot log and they verify your hours. As an example, if you are a govt major like our DS, the playing field was just leveled against the engineer for UPT because he proved to the AF he has solo'd, whereas, the engineer had no flight hours. Being an engineer does not guarantee you have the SA to handle a stick. Flight hours in a plane does.

He asked me "What are the three words in the english language that start with 'dw'?"

He was looking for your reaction time from a pilot perspective. For a hs kid that question is like a missile being locked onto the aircraft. Your reaction gave him insight to how you handle the unpredictable life of the military. Flustered and fill it with ums, ahs, let me think for a second is different than saying DW, um, dweedle dee, dwarf and does Dependent Wife count?

I bet that is his gotcha question, and I bet he has kids who say I can't think of one and kids that say I can only think of dwarf in a minute. The kid who says I can't think of any probably gave him pause because it would appear as if they gave up without trying, whereas even the kid with only 1 took time, assessed the problem and found a result.
 
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it took me about like 45 seconds to think of even one...the rest of the time was umms and hmms before he started giving me hints.

Pretty sure thinking of "dwarf" is different than breaking right in a defensive situation while in the air...




Or maybe not
 
I think those that had a SAM on their 6 would say thinking about DW words were easier than throwing chaff and breaking right or left while trying to hit their target on the mission run.

As I stated, that was the purpose of his exercise, he wanted to see how you handled pressure, but both have the same results, to you right now it felt like a make or break situation, your heart was pumping, mind was raising and going through a check list, it was a do or die moment.

Even remove flying, and think about college and ROTC, they will throw things at you that you never expected, they expect you to solve the problem. Unfortunately too many people believe that once they get the scholarship and into their college it will be a cake walk, but it isn't.

An old cliche for parents...the smaller the child, the smaller the problem. That is true even when they are not small anymore. High school is easy compared to college, college is easy compared to the real world.

If you grasp that at a young age, than you will be successful.
 
If I do not receive an AFROTC scholarship, but still join AFROTC, when will I have to take my DODMERB?
 
I don't think you take it until you are contracted or for SFT. DodMerbs only last for 2 yrs, so they don't like giving them until they have to give it.
 
I am not sure about that because prior to commissioning you will need to take a new DodMerb. Plus, if you are selected for SFT you will need another physical.

Now the head to toe and everywhere in between might be 5 yrs, for a contracted C100 that is technical, but this was about someone who would not be a scholarship recipient wondering when they would get one.

For example, let's say you apply for a scholarship for 15, but do not get one, you apply again as a freshman. You get contracted in Sept 12, however since you did a DodMerb for AFA and AFROTC back in Aug 10, that DodMerb would not be valid to get contracted because it is 2 yrs out.

At least that use to be the rules. There have been cadets that got their pay withheld because their DodMerb was not current.

I also know that there have been cadets prior to graduation/commissioning that somewhere along the line had a new DodMerb issue that got them flagged and so they had to scurry to get a waiver.

Finally, in the AD world they have yrly physicals called long and short. Short is done yrly and long is done every other yr. Than when you hit 40 the long becomes even longer and more invasive. The long would be comparative to what you do to get contracted, eyes, ears, everything, thus, it is 2 yrs...again CAVEAT: I know they do that for fliers, maybe not for everyone else.
 
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