Scholarship 4 year AROTC- when does contracting happen?

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Slatejpo

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My child is a freshman at a very large AROTC program and a 4 year scholarship winner. Did excellent on the ACFT and has completed first FTX. No one in the program has contracted and when they ask, they aren’t getting answers. Do you know when most scholarship winners contract once they start college? Thank you!
 
In the same boat. 4-year winner, 140-R submitted, ACFT completed, etc. etc. Nobody here has contracted either.

We're waiting for the famously efficient bureaucratic process to do its thing, so patience is the name of the game. Sit back, try to relax, and focus on other things. It'll come through eventually.
 
Slatejpo said:
My child is a freshman at a very large AROTC program and a 4 year scholarship winner. Did excellent on the ACFT and has completed first FTX. No one in the program has contracted and when they ask, they aren’t getting answers. Do you know when most scholarship winners contract once they start college? Thank you!
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BearDog567 said:
In the same boat. 4-year winner, 140-R submitted, ACFT completed, etc. etc. Nobody here has contracted either.

We're waiting for the famously efficient bureaucratic process to do its thing, so patience is the name of the game. Sit back, try to relax, and focus on other things. It'll come through eventually.
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Thank you! Good to hear it’s not just this program
 
My daughter is a 4 year AROTC national scholarship winner at a State school and she contracted roughly 4 weeks ago.
 
All the paperwork needs to go through. It can take a while, especially with DODMERB involved. DS was sworn in about halfway through fall term. Funny thing is, he did FEX the weekend prior. I teased him that they first wanted to see how he handled the rappelling wall before making it official. 😉

Everything squared up retroactively, e.g. tuition, books, stipend.
 
MidCakePa said:
All the paperwork needs to go through. It can take a while, especially with DODMERB involved. DS was sworn in about halfway through fall term. Funny thing is, he did FEX the weekend prior. I teased him that they first wanted to see how he handled the rappelling wall before making it official. 😉

Everything squared up retroactively, e.g. tuition, books, stipend.
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Thank you! She’s been DoDMerb qualified since shortly after selection in the first Board a year ago and did all the paperwork over the summer, 104r etc. So hopefully it
Happens soon!
 
Our son was the same, and I kept asking when it was going to happen. Plus his 4-yr scholarship was not showing on his school side, which makes me nervous. He FINALLY contracted last week. Good luck!
 
If there is a delay in the contracting does the school bill the student's family or do they understand it's a process and wait for the scholarship to come through?
 
momto21982 said:
If there is a delay in the contracting does the school bill the student's family or do they understand it's a process and wait for the scholarship to come through?
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ours showed on the billing as an anticipated credit, and they didn't bill us. But we did get lucky that they paid his bill long before he officially contracted....at least that's how it appeared on our end.
 
sherheath said:
ours showed on the billing as an anticipated credit, and they didn't bill us. But we did get lucky that they paid his bill long before he officially contracted....at least that's how it appeared on our end.
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this makes me a little nervous
 
momto21982 said:
If there is a delay in the contracting does the school bill the student's family or do they understand it's a process and wait for the scholarship to come through?
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They should understand, but you need to tell the Bursars office so they can give an extension. (I'm guessing this is what happened with sherhealth, I don't think the Army pays before contracting)
 
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This blows my mind. 90% of my scholarship winners are contracted on the first day of the semester. Can’t imagine why programs wait this long if the Cadets are fully qualified. Those programs are costing their Cadets stipend money.
 
clarksonarmy said:
This blows my mind. 90% of my scholarship winners are contracted on the first day of the semester. Can’t imagine why programs wait this long if the Cadets are fully qualified. Those programs are costing their Cadets stipend money.
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Don’t they retro pay? I thought I read that.
 
BearDog567 said:
They should understand, but you need to tell the Bursars office so they can give an extension. (I'm guessing this is what happened with sherhealth, I don't think the Army pays before contracting)
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it's possible, but we weren't involved everything was just taken care of on the backend. Perhaps our ROTC unit/college just wait for the money to be paid from the Army vs collecting upfront from the parents. We were very grateful as it has been an easy process that didn't require our involvement.
 
They retro the tuition and fees and book money, but stipend shouldn't be retroed. Programs that delay contracting cost Cadets stipend.
 
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