AROTC 1st Board

It means exactly that. Your profile is under consideration and the board will decide if you are offered a scholarship.
 
AcademyRes said:
When you mentioned, "My DD got a list of 3 schools from her list of 7. I’ve read on this forum other kids got a choice of 4 schools", does this mean that Cadet Command chooses what schools you can attend out of he possible 7? And, your DD must still be accepted to the University first, correct? There is no guarantee she will attend her college of choice just because CC has it on the list. I'm just curious why Cadet Command would pick and choose? Do they communicate with the ROTC departments? Sorry for all the questions.
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Cadet Command does not choose for you what school you ultimately attend. What they do choose for you are the schools to which to can use the scholarship. They will give you a list (2-4) of schools out of the 7. Out of that list, you pick the one school to which you apply the scholarship. The reality is you can change your selection later on in case you don’t get into that first school or you just plain ol’ change your mind.

There is no guarantee someone will get into the school that cadet command will give an option to apply the scholarship.

My take is that each school has a “mission” to meet in terms of number of cadets on scholarship. If Michigan has met its mission or gone over, then maybe cadet command won’t give Michigan to someone as a choice to which a scholarship is applied.
 
FCH76 said:
Do they have to be accepted to the school before they can get the ROTC to that school? We were waiting to see if my twins got the ROTC scholarship before we spent the money on application fees to the school. There's no way they can attend this school unless they get an ROTC scholarship. It's a private university and insanely expensive, but with the ROTC scholarship, the university pays for room and board and the scholarship covers tuition.
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If that school is on their list, apply. You may not hear about a scholarship until the 3rd board and by then it will be too late to apply.
 
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FCH76 said:
Do they have to be accepted to the school before they can get the ROTC to that school? We were waiting to see if my twins got the ROTC scholarship before we spent the money on application fees to the school. There's no way they can attend this school unless they get an ROTC scholarship. It's a private university and insanely expensive, but with the ROTC scholarship, the university pays for room and board and the scholarship covers tuition.
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Tread carefully here. @AROTC Parent has said this in many of his posts and I completely agree.

Take into consideration the affordability of the school even when on AROTC scholarship. You never know if your DS or DD will decide the Army life is not for him/her and, therefore, disenrol from AROTC. The first year is “free.” You can walk away after the first year obligation-free and no questions asked. Once to attend the first day of AROTC as a sophomore, then you’re obligated.

What if you get hurt and become medically DQ from commissioning? Now the scholarship goes away and you’re at your dream school (Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, etc...) with a $55k tuition bill?

They don’t have to be accepted prior to applying the scholarship to the school. Hopefully you’ll find out sooner rather than later so you can decide to apply or not.
 
Same status, but now with this added....

“This applicant is being considered by the first Selection Board that convened on 09 Dec 19. We expected to have results mid-January 2020”
 
Quick question. My portal also says Boarded/Under consideration, but I just now added an ACT score that I thought I had added already (I added the same one twice on accident and didn't realize.) The ACT I just added increases my reading score by four points.

If my portal has already been boarded, will adding the ACT help my chances for the first board results at all (place me higher on the Oder of Merit list)? Or was it pointless to add it at this point.
 
Sargrio22 said:
Quick question. My portal also says Boarded/Under consideration, but I just now added an ACT score that I thought I had added already (I added the same one twice on accident and didn't realize.) The ACT I just added increases my reading score by four points.

If my portal has already been boarded, will adding the ACT help my chances for the first board results at all (place me higher on the Oder of Merit list)? Or was it pointless to add it at this point.
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It may not help you with this board, but it will certainly will for the second. You should definitely add it.
 
GoCubbies said:
I’d give it until the end of the week to change status. Too early to be concerned.
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Do you think it has anything to do when you finished? DS was done third week of Sept. and is still Board Ready. Where do they start with this pileup they must have, being two months late?
 
THmom said:
Do you think it has anything to do when you finished? DS was done third week of Sept. and is still Board Ready. Where do they start with this pileup they must have, being two months late?
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Great question. DS was also finished 3rd week of September, and is "Under Consideration." The Board is still meeting, so they are probably getting through them now. I'm sure there were lots to review!
 
AcademyRes said:
When you mentioned, "My DD got a list of 3 schools from her list of 7. I’ve read on this forum other kids got a choice of 4 schools", does this mean that Cadet Command chooses what schools you can attend out of he possible 7? And, your DD must still be accepted to the University first, correct? There is no guarantee she will attend her college of choice just because CC has it on the list. I'm just curious why Cadet Command would pick and choose? Do they communicate with the ROTC departments? Sorry for all the questions.
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Yes to all your questions. No idea why they pick and choose, but it's their process so they can. I'm confident they try to get an applicant into their first choice school if they can. I do not know the limiting factors.
 
FCH76 said:
Do they have to be accepted to the school before they can get the ROTC to that school? We were waiting to see if my twins got the ROTC scholarship before we spent the money on application fees to the school. There's no way they can attend this school unless they get an ROTC scholarship. It's a private university and insanely expensive, but with the ROTC scholarship, the university pays for room and board and the scholarship covers tuition.
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+1 to Herman_Snerds response. I would add that the schools deadline for applications might very well pass before the twins are awarded a ROTC scholarship to any school.
 
GoCubbies said:
Tread carefully here. @AROTC Parent has said this in many of his posts and I completely agree.

Take into consideration the affordability of the school even when on AROTC scholarship. You never know if your DS or DD will decide the Army life is not for him/her and, therefore, disenrol from AROTC. The first year is “free.” You can walk away after the first year obligation-free and no questions asked. Once to attend the first day of AROTC as a sophomore, then you’re obligated.

What if you get hurt and become medically DQ from commissioning? Now the scholarship goes away and you’re at your dream school (Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, etc...) with a $55k tuition bill?

They don’t have to be accepted prior to applying the scholarship to the school. Hopefully you’ll find out sooner rather than later so you can decide to apply or not.
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+1 to GoCubbies. Attrition rates in ROTC programs can be very high. DS' NROTC unit started with 45 freshman but only 15 commissioned. There are all kinds of reasons kids drop out or are forced out. My favorite is the midshipman who took a swing at a Sgt at USMC OCS. How did he think that would work out for him?
 
Holden100 said:
Great question. DS was also finished 3rd week of September, and is "Under Consideration." The Board is still meeting, so they are probably getting through them now. I'm sure there were lots to review!
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I finished on December 2nd, Day of the deadline but mine is also under consideration status
I’m not sure if they go by date considering mine was right at the first deadline
 
AcademyRes said:
When you mentioned, "My DD got a list of 3 schools from her list of 7. I’ve read on this forum other kids got a choice of 4 schools", does this mean that Cadet Command chooses what schools you can attend out of he possible 7? And, your DD must still be accepted to the University first, correct? There is no guarantee she will attend her college of choice just because CC has it on the list. I'm just curious why Cadet Command would pick and choose? Do they communicate with the ROTC departments? Sorry for all the questions.
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DS only got a choice of 2 schools...
 
THmom said:
Do you think it has anything to do when you finished? DS was done third week of Sept. and is still Board Ready. Where do they start with this pileup they must have, being two months late?
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There’s a retired LTC on this forum who retired as a PMS and wrote a book about getting ROTC scholarships. I don’t recall his name. Anyway, he might be able to enlighten us on the actual mechanics of the board.

I’m guessing they have a hundred or so files to review. They reviewed a certain amount today so the status changed. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be more applications reviewed and the status will change at that time too.

I’d wait until Friday to see if the status changes.
 
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