@AetosSA @Momtomany
I am not here to burst bubbles, but I am a pragmatic person and want to provide realistic expectation management. I can be very sure, in that the Scholarship Program Manager at Cadet Command briefs the ROOs in my BDE every year on the National HS Scholarship Process. Typically, the top 1000 students get a 4yr, the next 2000 are offered a 3YR, then the next 1000 are offered a 2yr MJC scholarship. Offers made prior to the 3rd board, are based on your projected place on the OML based on historical numbers. If offered a 2yr scholarship, you are projected to have a lower OML score than those who will receive a 3YR offer. However you could be high enough that when all applicants are boarded, that you actually had a score high enough for a 3yr scholarship, just as some 3YR offers will be upgraded to a 4YR, as they actually placed in the top 1000. Based on this, I find it extremely unlikely that anyone offered a 2YR has later been offered a 4YR scholarship.
The GPA/SAT scores you have listed are highly competitive compared to the past winners. However, that is only one small portion of the Whole Person Score (WPS) that is used for scholarship selection. The WPS breaks down as follows:
Board: 350 (25%)
SAT/ACT: 249 (18%)
Cadet Background Experience Form (CBEF): 250 (18%)
Extracurricular Activities (SAL): 201 (14%)
PMS Interview: 200 (14%) [GPA + SAT account for either 0, 20, or 40 pts of these 200, you would've received the full 40 on your scores]
Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA): 150 (11%)
When it comes down to it, GPA+SAT only accounts for around 25% of the WPS. So there are many candidates with excellent academic achievements that do not receive a scholarship offer. The PMS interview tends to have a significant influence in overall OML results in that tends to be the tie breaker among candidates, plus the PMS selects whether to recommend the applicant for a scholarship or not, and that PMS interview influences the scholarship board members in the points that they assign to the applicant.
I do hope that you end up being high enough on the OML to get a 3yr scholarship, but my goal on these forums is to provide accurate, unbiased information. Makes sure you are in contact with the ROO at the school you want to attend, as some schools are given a hip pocket 3yr scholarship after the board process to give it out to whomever they want. I tend to give my hip pocket scholarship to a non-selected national applicant that I have been in good communication with, as they have the interest and I already have access to all of their relevant information. I am sure other ROOs do the same.
