AROTC (Personal) Advice for Scholarship! Example Stats

[MythyLW]

Good afternoon everybody, I have pestered people and lurked on this forum for close to a year now so the least I can do is give back and answer questions, share my stats, etc, which earned me a four-year scholarship!! (In addition, if it may come up this was my first board)

SAT: 1240 Super score
4.3 weighted, 3.7 UW, was in the Commonwealth Governors School Program
Major: Computer Science (Major isn't important for Army, I believe it's a single point on OML)
PFA:
50 Situps
46 Pushups
5:36 Mile

Sports
1 Varsity Letter (XC)
Baseball Freshman-Junior year (No varsity letters awarded for varsity fall ball)
Track & Field Junior / Senior year - no varsity letter awarded due to being in terrible shape (*previously*)

Extracurriculars
I am an officer of 3 clubs and a founder of one.

Several other clubs I volunteer in, and I am a national parks & services volunteer in addition to a little league umpire.

I also am a personal trainer on the side for people looking to lose weight.

I have attended a national leadership conference and received a national academic award (AP Scholar) which I believe was very helpful!!

I volunteer regularly close to 10 hours monthly (at the least)

Work:

Over the summer I work full time and school year 10-19 hours a week.

GENERAL TIPS

• I recommend personally interviewing with a school on your list (IF POSSIBLE)! These people have to essentially write a report on you after an interview, and if they know you want to go there they are likely ( not always ) to be much more thorough and helpful in scoring
• Taking the survey seriously!! It's worth a lot of points
• If your standardized testing scores aren't the best it's okay!! I was in shock I got a four year with a 1240 sat, it's possible!
• Take the essays seriously!!! Although the board doesn't have a ton of time to review each profile you want to STAND OUT, especially if your standardized testing scores aren't the best. I primarily talked about my desire to serve, my responsibility growing up, and the concept of selfless service and how it's impacted my life.
• Have a plan B for after your scholarship, and don't lose hope, there's another board!

 

[aCGAhopeful]

I got a 4 year with 1400+ sat 750 math and varsity track/xc

 

[MythyLW]

I got a 4 year with 1400+ sat 750 math and varsity track/xc

awesome! I was definitely a little in shock I got a 4 year with a 1240.... I made a big thing on my application about self improvement in all aspects of my life and did my best on my interview, congrats to you!

 

[aCGAhopeful]

awesome! I was definitely a little in shock I got a 4 year with a 1240.... I made a big thing on my application about self improvement in all aspects of my life and did my best on my interview, congrats to you!

You have extremely solid ECs, congratulations!

 

[Minimalmaple28]

Yeah, if anything this made me less confident that I’ll get a scholarship. You’re an all around master

 

[MythyLW]

Yeah, if anything this made me less confident that I’ll get a scholarship. You’re an all around master

If you would like to personally talk about your stats I could do my best to offer advice, I think the biggest things if your test scores are lacking is to make yourself stand out with leadership and motivation friend, I believe in you.

 

[Minimalmaple28]

Yeah, if anything this made me less confident that I’ll get a scholarship. You’re an all around master

If you would like to personally talk about your stats I could do my best to offer advice, I think the biggest things if your test scores are lacking is to make yourself stand out with leadership and motivation friend, I believe in you.

Stats:
55 pushups, 60 situps
7:30 Mile (terrible, recovering from injury)
3.6 GPA UW (decent)
26 ACT (not bad, but not good)
Honor Guard Leader
NHS Member
Freshman and JV football before injury
Working up to 45 hours a week during school year, up to 30 over summer.
3 IB courses, 2 Honors courses, all with A’s
Volunteer as church security
Intramural weight training.

 

[MythyLW]

Yeah, if anything this made me less confident that I’ll get a scholarship. You’re an all around master

If you would like to personally talk about your stats I could do my best to offer advice, I think the biggest things if your test scores are lacking is to make yourself stand out with leadership and motivation friend, I believe in you.

Stats:
55 pushups, 60 situps
7:30 Mile (terrible, recovering from injury)
3.6 GPA UW (decent)
26 ACT (not bad, but not good)
Honor Guard Leader
NHS Member
Freshman and JV football before injury
Working up to 45 hours a week during school year, up to 30 over summer.
3 IB courses, 2 Honors courses, all with A’s
Volunteer as church security
Intramural weight training.

I believe you're going to be fine for third board honestly friend. I have a bit more extracurriculars but overall we're pretty similar, once you recover definitely retake that fitness test for your mile and keep working hard - you got this friend.

 

[MrNiceGuy347]

Yeah, if anything this made me less confident that I’ll get a scholarship. You’re an all around master

If you would like to personally talk about your stats I could do my best to offer advice, I think the biggest things if your test scores are lacking is to make yourself stand out with leadership and motivation friend, I believe in you.

Stats:
55 pushups, 60 situps
7:30 Mile (terrible, recovering from injury)
3.6 GPA UW (decent)
26 ACT (not bad, but not good)
Honor Guard Leader
NHS Member
Freshman and JV football before injury
Working up to 45 hours a week during school year, up to 30 over summer.
3 IB courses, 2 Honors courses, all with A’s
Volunteer as church security
Intramural weight training.

Hey man you got better stats then me for sure you’ll be fine don’t stress about anything just relax recover and wait for the next board