I normally post in the 1st Board results, but since we essentially have 4 boards left, I figured I would post here. And I felt Jimdlt19 was getting lonely with no one replying to his post
First off, I am not here to post any results. If you anxiously clicked here for that purpose, I apologize. Go back to your Sunday morning coffee, or your Super Bowl pre game cooking, or whatever you were doing prior to reading this.
But, if you are bored like me (grading college papers and need a break), I wanted to share some general stats that were discussed at a recent PNS meeting.
We did in fact get the most recent board results from JANUARY (not the Feb 7-11 board) in front of our Boss, and I believe those have been approved. No one worked the weekend, so likely tomorrow and Tuesday people will be punching the data into the databased, and at some point, emails will go out. If I pick a day, someone will make a liar out of me and delay it, so I can't predict if that will be tomorrow, or Tuesday, or the next day.
For Jimdlt19, I hear there are some Nurse Options on the last board, and there were some more on the Feb board, and I will have more on that later.
Up to this point, there have been 459 NROTC Scholarships awarded (this is only Navy -- the Marines have managed to keep their numbers shrouded in secrecy. Any of you who have insight into the MCRC process, chime in.) Overall this year, we will likely offer in the neighborhood of 1000. This means with half the boards done, half the scholarships are still out there.
For MSISR (read this is those applying for either HBC or HHE colleges), there are 40 scholarships awarded. The total number to be awarded is a moving target, but for rough planning, it should be in the neighborhood of 200 selectees. What this means is there are a LOT left to give......so if you have an MSISR application pending, to read the tea leaves, you are in decent shape because we have lower application rates in this area this year.
For Nurse Options......and I can see through my computer that Jimdlt19 just moved to the edge of his seat.......there have only been 9 selected thusfar. The projections for this year suggest there may be as many as 50 given total. So again, odds are good, but there are several hundred applications. So keep your options open for Nurse Candidate Program.
Here is one major difference from where things were last year. We would normally be sending out rejection notices by the February boards. That's because we have been further along in the selection process and we could tell who the lower ranking candidates were, and that they would not be competitive moving forward. We can't predict that just yet, so there have been no rejection notices going out. Suspect they will go out in March timeframe.
One other data point. For those College Programmers who completed their first semester and submitted grades for the 4 year NROTC scholarship, their selection rate right now is 86%, which is obviously very high. Going forward, folks will be taking a hard look at this because in one sense, we can really tell who was dedicated to NROTC and got good college grades, but on the other, is it really fair in the process to have college freshmen competing against HS seniors? I don't have an answer myself, but it's something people are jaw-boning over.
So, I hope those of you who follow this get some good news this week, and if you hear nothing, that can still be good news but of course you are still on pins and needles.
And now, I am heading back to grade papers. Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
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