Official 2016 AFROTC POC Selection Process Thread

FYI: Supposedly there are around 2100+ slots this year.
"Supposedly" would imply that it isn't certain. The main point is that nobody knows until they are already released. Last year they didn't plan on a second round either.
 
Scholarship or not, it is "masked" the selection board has no idea if the cadet is on scholarship.
~ Look at the breakdown for pts...scholarship cadets do not get any points from a scoring aspect. It is a simple formula, RSS, cgpa, PFA, tech/non-tech with the question left to be answered..rated/non-rated.

Nothing annotates that any point is awarded because one cadet with the exact same cgpa or PFA will have an edge just because they are an HSSP or ICSP cadet.
~ Posters here call an HSSP AFROT cadet 2+2 for a reason. It is only truly guaranteed for 2 yeard.
 
Scholarship or not, it is "masked" the selection board has no idea if the cadet is on scholarship.
~ Look at the breakdown for pts...scholarship cadets do not get any points from a scoring aspect. It is a simple formula, RSS, cgpa, PFA, tech/non-tech with the question left to be answered..rated/non-rated.

Nothing annotates that any point is awarded because one cadet with the exact same cgpa or PFA will have an edge just because they are an HSSP or ICSP cadet.
~ Posters here call an HSSP AFROT cadet 2+2 for a reason. It is only truly guaranteed for 2 yeard.
Oh wait this is selection for becoming a pilot for those already in afrotc?
 
No this is the POC Selection Process for the nomination and award of enrollment allocations.
 
DS signed paperwork stating:

"I INTEND / DO NOT INTEND to volunteer for rated PSP. I understand that if selected for a rated Enrollment Allocation (EA) I am committing to meet the actual rated board the year prior to commissioning. Additionally, if I withdraw my volunteer status prior to or during the rated board for my FY of graduation it will result in an investigation for disenrollment if no non-rated, non-tech EAs are available."
 
PSP nominations are due tomorrow. If you are interested in calculating your Order of Merit List score, this is the formula:

( ( (1-R/C)+0.5/C)*10)*4) + (SAT-E*0.015625) + (GPA*6.25) + (FA*.1)
where R=Detachment Commanders Ranking and C=Class Size.

Maximum possible OML score of 100 when a cadet is ranked #1, has a 1600 SAT-E, 4.0 GPA and 100 FA score. Average 2015 PSP OML score was 70 using last year's averages and assuming commanders ranking in the 50th percentile.

Your score will determine your position in a national "rack and stack". HQ will draw the cutting line based on FY18 target accessions as specified by Congress.
 
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All PSP nominations have been submitted. Good luck to all, the board will convene in the coming weeks and EA results should be out by the end of the month.
 
Hey all, got an email from cadre yesterday with Max dates...here they are:

Max I: 18 May-10 Jun
Max II: 1-24 Jun
Max III: 15 Jun-8 Jul
Max IV: 29 Jun-22 Jul
Max V: 13 Jul-5 Aug
Max VI: 27 Jul-19 Aug

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the 2016 FTM references both 23 and 27 training days. These dates show 23 TDs...was a little confused.
 
I believe that there was only 1 year that they did 5 Max's. I think they determined after that year doing only 5 Max's was just too many cadets for each Max.
~ They didn't decrease the number attending, just the amount of Maxs.

I guess they are back at doing 23 days again for this year compared to if memory serves me right 27 days last year.

Good luck everybody.
 
I believe that there was only 1 year that they did 5 Max's. I think they determined after that year doing only 5 Max's was just too many cadets for each Max.
~ They didn't decrease the number attending, just the amount of Maxs.

I guess they are back at doing 23 days again for this year compared to if memory serves me right 27 days last year.

Good luck everybody.
That was the rumor but the FTM for 2016 states 27 days.
 
Maybe it is too early in the a.m., but according to Guns post and my math, they are going with 23 days. My guess is that the FTM is now out of date if Guns unit has released the actual dates for SFT.

Now jmpo, in the end does it really matter if they do 23 or 27, or have 5 or 6 Maxs? No, because the decision was made by a much higher pay rate and it is what it is.
~ Be happy that they reduced the days...it means less early wakeups!

The only thing that I would look at are the dates, because Max 1 or 2 is a heck of a lot better than going Max4-6 from a heat/humidity perspective.

Flipside going Max 1 can be an issue too because now you could finish your finals on the 12th and need to be there by the 18th.
 
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Maybe it is too early in the a.m., but according to Guns post and my math, they are going with 23 days. My guess is that the FTM is now out of date if Guns unit has released the actual dates for SFT.
Oh yeah, didn't even see his post. That's a pretty big typo in the FTM then!
 
Probably not. It takes them months to do the FTM and back when they did it, they probably thought it would be 27 days, but along the line the higher ups decided 23 days is fine, thus why now they are releasing the dates via the units.

Honestly, if you look through the years the amount of days and the # of Maxs keep gets getting tweaked along the way. 5 years ago and it was 28 days and 6 Maxs, but since than they have gone up and done regarding both between 23 to 27 days, 5 and 6 Maxs.
~ Just like selection rates, and rated/non-rated paperwork intentions.

Part of me believes that sequestration is still impacting HQ AFROTC. Shaving off 4 days of training for @2000 cadets while not risking the training outcome saves them money. Yes, it maybe pennies from the big picture aspect, but that is where they are at now from a cost savings perspective.
~ If you look at it that way than you will see what what I mean
~~ Type 2 has not increases since 2008. It is still capped at 18K, but college tuition have increased on avg by 7-10% per year since 2008. I.E. VT for 2015-16 OOS is 29K. 2012-13 it was 23.5K. 3 short academic years and it went up 25%
~~ Stipend has not moved at all either. Actually the stipend has gone down. In 2012 AS400s received 550 a month. DS as a 100 in 2008 got $250 per month. 350 for 200, 450 for 300 and 550 for 400.
~~ Book allowance has also remained the same. Can't tell me books are cheaper now, and even back in 2012, Chegg existed.

My point is they have shaved every penny, but the DoD still needs to shave money and they are not going to take it from the AD world or the SAs before they take from the ROTC world. AF especially because if you look at their newest media releases, they are increasing the numbers of officers commissioned via OCS/OTS while the SA/ROTC numbers will remain the same. To me that says they have a number they need for manpower, and to save money they are going to use that third rail...OCS/OTS.

Just my opinion. sorry for taking this off track, but hoping posters see it now from a different view of why they may utilize the 23 instead of 27 day option for SFT.
 
It appears there are less TDs because they added a max. Due to the large increase in OTS accessions, AFROTC has less space at Maxwell AFB.
 
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