AROTC January Board Acceptance

POC no longer working in scholarship branch?

Nothing here yet, either - and:

I'm one of those who posted in another thread about receiving repeated letters about "missing items" in the scholarship application. I tried calling my son's individual POC this morning (as suggested in the letter,) and learned through her voicemail greeting that she no longer works in the scholarship branch. I emailed CC to find out if there is anyone else who can help. Has anyone else had this experience?
 
HMQ said:
Nothing here yet, either - and:

I'm one of those who posted in another thread about receiving repeated letters about "missing items" in the scholarship application. I tried calling my son's individual POC this morning (as suggested in the letter,) and learned through her voicemail greeting that she no longer works in the scholarship branch. I emailed CC to find out if there is anyone else who can help. Has anyone else had this experience?
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Same with my POC. I'm guessing we have the same one. I called my first choice school and they got me in contact with another person from CC.
 
RKO123 said:
Just checked DoDMERB...nothing. So hopefully monday?
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It will show up on the goarmy page before DoDMERB, at least it has for the scholarship winners from the last 2 boards. Start checking there on Monday as nothing will change over the weekend.
If I remember correctly, the status started changing on a Monday for the first board and DoDMERB wasn't given the list until that Thursday or Friday. maybe someone else remembers?
 
Just checked the Army ROTC website for myself. Still states I haven't completed my interview with a professor of military science. *sigh* still waiting.
 
cjs said:
If I remember correctly, the status started changing on a Monday for the first board and DoDMERB wasn't given the list until that Thursday or Friday. maybe someone else remembers?
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I don't remember the exact days, but it was about 5 to 6 days.

Also in the past, the GoArmy Site has gone down for a time while they update everyone's statuses. If you can't get the site, it is usually a hint something is coming.
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GoArmy is definately the site to check. In our case, the DODMERB site did not update until early January for the December board. As I recall, on the first day the GoArmy status changed to "DODMERB" indicating a scholarship was being offered. The next day, the status was extended to also list the specific schools offering a scholarship. I mention this because waiting for the second update is just about as bad as waiting for the first one.
 
Aglages (sp?) I have shown strong interest to the schools I am applying to. I did my interview at a local school that I am not applying to for convenience, but I have a meeting on Monday with that specific PMS and I will probably get answers of the questions I have (this will be interesting if results come out on Monday.) I have been e-mailing her and at one point asked these questions, but she did not respond to them, but a face to face meeting will be good. Like everyone else has stated, thank you very much for all the information. Posting on here is crucial for someone like me; it is definitely another day of comfort knowing no one else has seen anything on their statuses. On another note, to the person concerned if their application made it on time, I had a similar situation. My application was not submitted to the Nov. board on time because the fax that was sent of my PT scores was too blurry to read. So at the time I was concerned for my scholarship getting in by Nov., but it did not. My assurance for the December board came in the form of a letter. My new, previously "blurry" PT scores got into them literally three days before the board had their meeting, so in my opinion you should be fine if everything is in. But you will know for sure via a letter. It was somewhat disappointing though haha... my letter said "Congratulations!" I had that nervous excitement when I first saw that... but then it said something like "we have received all of your information and you will be considered for the next board etc etc." Good luck to all of you. After returning from the March For Life in D.C. today, it warms my heart knowing so many of us want to step up and serve this unique nation; whether it be changing it, or keeping our rights to want to change it possible. Finally, my next question to pose is in the event we do not get the scholarship. I have been told if you do not receive the 4 year and participate in ROTC scholarship free for the freshman year of college, then you have a good chance of getting the 3 year scholarship after your freshman year. Can anyone tell me if this is for the most part true? Thanks everyone.
 
Just again checked the Army ROTC website. No trouble yet. Still waiting and hoping!
 
Just wanted to say good luck for everyone who's waiting. I'd say tomorrow will be the day...good luck everybody! I'm crossing my fingers for all of us!
 
Anyone hear yet from the January board? I checked my status and there was nothing.
 
the waiting is brutal. hopefully by the end of the day we will know
 
Last month the board finished 12/4 and it took until 12/17 for the status website to change. So if you consider the board didn't finish this month until 1/15, it will probably be later in the week before we know.
 
I think BDAmom is right. There were 10 business days between the Dec 5th letter return from first Board reveiw until the Dec 17th offer update on the ARTOC portal. If you count forward 10 business days from January 17th (not counting MLK day), then you arrive at February 1. Hopefully CC is getting more efficient in this process so it won't take 10 business days.

Good luck to everyone!
 
Board dates

I was told the Jan Army ROTC board dates were 4-8, so we should be hearing something pretty soon
 
Right kydad, but I'm not sure it is the date of the review board the matters. The review board establishes the Order of Merit (OML) for all the new applications that have been received since the prior board meeting. The result is an up-to-date OML list for all applications received. The real work starts after CC knows which offers from the prior board have been accepted and which schools were picked. The response from Dec offers was due Jan 17. At this point CC knows how many new scholarships can be awarded and each battallion knows how many scholarships, if any, they can offer. This starts a process in which CC and the battallions figure out what they want to offer and who they want to offer it to. That is the process that I think is going on right now. It took them 10 days to do this in December.
 
speaking of how many offers a battalion can give out...do senior military colleges have limits also? For example, would Norwich, VMI, Citadel, VT ever turn down a highly qualified candidate for an Army ROTC scholarship? Would CC cap off a senior military college's ROTC enrollment? It seems to me they would want to keep their numbers as high as possible.
 
pj01720 said:
speaking of how many offers a battalion can give out...do senior military colleges have limits also? For example, would Norwich, VMI, Citadel, VT ever turn down a highly qualified candidate for an Army ROTC scholarship? Would CC cap off a senior military college's ROTC enrollment? It seems to me they would want to keep their numbers as high as possible.
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Sadly- Cadet Command does indeed have quotas for the Senior Military colleges as it does for all of the other schools, and those numbers appear to be quite a bit lower than they were last year.
Some educated conjecture on my part: The scholarships are a recruiting tool and bottom line: if they don't need to pay out to attract and retain cadets till commissioning then they won't spend the money. The yield rate for example at VMI is very high (ie... initial scholarship to commissioning rate) which normally would be a good thing but if you were looking at it from the standpoint of "we are going to get a lot of those cadets anyway", then Cadet command may not see it as the most cost effective use of their scholarship dollars.
Having said that- my contact at one of the SMCs advised that - if you get the scholarship offer but initially are told that it's not to your primary college- accept it and then really beat the door down at Cadet Command to impress upon them that you want to be at ( Norwich/ Citadel, VMI etc... take your pick) and make sure that the AROTC PMS at that school is also batting for you.
 
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