For Army ROTC does the major play into OML calculations. I understand gpa is a major component but is it treated evenly for all majors? Is a 3.2 for a history major the same as a 3.2 for an engineering major?
For Army ROTC does the major play into OML calculations. I understand gpa is a major component but is it treated evenly for all majors? Is a 3.2 for a history major the same as a 3.2 for an engineering major?
I have found some info on OMS and OML but haven't really figured out how much 1 point is with respect to gpa. GPA seems to be on a 40 point scale so is 1 point equal to .1 on the 4.0 gpa scale?
Jcleppe I understand what you are saying but I am not asking my question very well.
The gpa accounts for 40% of the OMS and everything else 60%. Consider two cadets that have exactly the same score in the everything else category. One is an engineer with a 3.3 gpa and the other is a history major with a 3.5 gpa.
The history major gets 35 OMS points?
The engr gets 33 + 1 = 34 OMS points?
Is the gpa to OMS conversion a direct linear conversion or something else?
I think you *are* getting it right, Packer.
I agree with J's comment that the "everything else" category can make up for a lesser GPA, and it *is* subjective... that is the 45 points that are not for PFT.
I apparently am not understanding the OMS. I came up with 84 and 85 points and you came up with 84 and 85 (with your example of 50 everything else points) but they are not the same.
I am thinking of the OMS on a 100 point basis.
I figured 40 possible percentage points for gpa and 60 possible percentage points for everything else. The one "extra credit" point for being an engineer I considered to be 1 point on a 100 point scale or 1%.
I like the idea of the 1 point being worth more by adding it at the end as my son plans on majoring in engineering but I am just not grasping it. Sometime us engineers are a little slow!
Certainly understand that there is more to success than just academics as there should be.
Funny you mention the APFT, while in nature it is not subjective, the grading of the APFT at LDAC certainly is. Cadets often find that the PU's and SU's they did at their battalion counted just fine, at LDAC they find that they do not. When I last spoke to the NCO's at my son's battalion they told me they would love to see the grading done by NCO's and not the fresh LT's. The grading is all over the place and subjective to the grader you happen to get. A cadet can average a score of 320 their entire junior year only to get a 270 at LDAC or worse not pass at all. It sort of takes the wind out of a cadet that has 30 PU's not count only to have the NCO standing next to the testing apologize and say they all looked pretty good to me.
This happened to a lot of cadets last LDAC and is a pretty common theme. Yep my son was one of them, both recorded APFT's were above 330 junior year, got a 285 at LDAC, went to CTLT the day after LDAC and got a 340, go figure.
Point is even the APFT can be a bit subjective and have an element of luck depending on which grader you get.