@bk120165 - you are limiting yourself if that is your perspective. Take a step back and get out a piece of paper. Write down all of the reasons why you are pursuing a scholarship and rank them in terms of importance to YOU. If all you are trying to do is pay for college and you don't care about active duty - take the ECP. Can you afford to go to college if you don't get a scholarship? Do your time in the guard/reserves and move on. Plenty of people do it.
Do you want to go active duty, are you thinking that you may want to make a career of it (we all did going in..) . Does the ECP limit you to what school you want to go to? You may feel like you are under a time crunch, but you really are not. Some self reflection here and the answer will present itself.
So - you decline the ECP and don't get a scholarship on the 3rd Board. As has been discussed, the majority of scholarship dollars are campus based allotments. Go to school, show up in shape, work your *** off and get a 3.5 or 3 year. It happens all the time. There are many, many paths to commission..
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@Jarhead713 - he was in your exact shoes last year and he declined the ECP, showed up to Ole Miss and won a scholarship.