My DD got several conflicting statements about boards. From the Battalion where she (as of Tuesday) received her 4yr Navy Option offer Boards met in Aug and then about the first week of each Month starting in Oct thru April. The "recruiter" who worked her application with her also said roughly that same schedule. Her application was complete the second week of October and the website was updated on 6 Dec 11. She made a couple of calls to the NETC to update school choices in that time and asked when the boards would be and was told they review the applications weekly and then when approved by the Admiral at NETC they update the website. My guess is they meet an official board and then the staff reviews the results and processes the approvals, submits for DoDMERB etc and the Admiral approves the completed packages once a week and that is when notifications go out. So for example an application may have met the early Nov board, was ranked high enough to get an offer, the staff then starts at the top one and works down from there so number 1 gets the offer within a week but the ones closer to the cut may be a month. Just a guess but after 20 years in the military and knowing how active duty boards work, that seems most likely. Good luck to all the candidates who are still waiting. My DD is much relieved and it will make the wait on the Academies much eaiser.