And in all honesty my primary goal is to acquire active duty flight time in the airforce and once my contract is up, transfer to the coastguard.
I think you might want to re-think your plan if flying for the coast guard is your ultimate goal.
If you are selected for rated and wing, you will owe 9 years. Typically AFROTC grads will start UPT @9-12 months after commissioning. UPT is 54 weeks long. Thus, it will be about 11 years before you can leave the AF. On top of that the CG does not fly many of the airframes the AF does.
~ AF has very few helos, and the CG does not fly fighters, bombers and most of our heavies.
Next, the CG would have to accept you at your age, and again most likely send you through their xtraining for whatever airframe they give you. I know pilots that have switched from the Navy to the AF after their commitment was up, but it is not common because you need that other branch to accept you at that incoming rank, which would be an O4. By the time they re-train you and get you operational, you basically would only have @ 7 -8 years left before you would be eligible to retire.
~At least for the x-branching between Navy and AF, they give you credit for that time in the other branch. It may be different between the CG and the AF because the AF is DoD and CG is Homeland.
Regarding letters A-Z. It has nothing to do with the security clearance, it has everything to do with the hurdles you have to clear. IE getting a ROTC scholarship is letter A. Than the next hurdle is SFT selection. Than the rated board. Than passing the FC1. Than the TS. So on and so forth.
You do not take the ASVAB for the AF as an officer. You take the AFOQT. For rated later on they will replace the AFOQT with the TBAS. The AFOQT is a 4 part timed exam like the ACT, but you will have components such as, Pilot and Nav.
As far as I know the new SAT is a scale of 1600, not 1400. For AFROTC scholarships they do not superscore. It is best sitting. They have never used the writing portion so it has always been a 1600 scale. The avg best sitting depending on the type ranges from @1280 to 1330. The avg best sitting ACT ranges from @29 to 32 or 33 (can't remember). According to college board the 75 percentile for the new SAT is suppose to be @1200. To me when you look at the avg SAT for AFROTC scholarship under the old compared to the new you still want to be closer to that 1300.
~ Statistically @16-18% of all AFROTC scholarship candidates get one. Extrapolating those numbers, than you can see again that you need to be closer to that 90% not the 75%.
~~ 80% of all scholarships are type 7. If you get a type 7 and PSU is OOS, than you will not be able to activate it until your sophomore year.
~~~ 85% of all scholarships go to tech majors. If you want to go non-tech, than expect that those stats for the SATs to be higher due to the fact that they give out way fewer to non-tech. IE. Only 5% of all scholarships are type 1 are awarded nationally. Out of that only 5% go to non-tech. If you run the numbers, than you are talking about maybe 2 or 3 out of @900 scholarships. Very, very competitive. Type 2 is just a little bit better with @45-50 nationally.
Scholarships are national and they do not care if 1 college has 100% on AFROTC scholarship and 0% at another. It is tied to the cadet and their major. You can take it to any college that accepts the AFROTC scholarship.
Good luck.