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Newport122

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The first board meets mid-October and my DD’s package will be in the first board.
  • How long until results are made?
  • What is the notification process?
  • Her NCC has been great; does the NCC present their candidate?
 
Answering your questions in reverse......

The package is submitted to the board electronically and the board consists of 9 Professors of Naval Science.

They will review all packages for that board individually, and each PNS will get a certain number of applicant packages that they will brief on behalf of the applicant. Each package receives a score from each PNS.

The senior PNS is the Chairman of the Board and is charged with ensuring the scoring is done in a fair and impartial manner.

When the board completes the scoring, a "cut line" is made and applicants scoring at or above the line are selectees. They will be notified by email from the Naval Service Training Command and many times the PNS from their school will also call or email.

There will also be a number of people who were not selectees but they made it onto the list of Alternates. The alternates will be grouped when all boarda are completed and then they will be chosen based on openings that occur over the board season.

Many people think non selects are placed in a big bin and get looked at on the next boards. That does NOT happen. Your record is scored, and that score is locked in.

Results can be released in as little as a day or 2, but it has taken over a week if the Admiral is on travel and cannot review the board results.

This is truly a case of hurry up and wait.....and wait. 🙂
 
GWU PNS said:
Answering your questions in reverse......

The package is submitted to the board electronically and the board consists of 9 Professors of Naval Science.

They will review all packages for that board individually, and each PNS will get a certain number of applicant packages that they will brief on behalf of the applicant. Each package receives a score from each PNS.

The senior PNS is the Chairman of the Board and is charged with ensuring the scoring is done in a fair and impartial manner.

When the board completes the scoring, a "cut line" is made and applicants scoring at or above the line are selectees. They will be notified by email from the Naval Service Training Command and many times the PNS from their school will also call or email.

There will also be a number of people who were not selectees but they made it onto the list of Alternates. The alternates will be grouped when all boarda are completed and then they will be chosen based on openings that occur over the board season.

Many people think non selects are placed in a big bin and get looked at on the next boards. That does NOT happen. Your record is scored, and that score is locked in.

Results can be released in as little as a day or 2, but it has taken over a week if the Admiral is on travel and cannot review the board results.

This is truly a case of hurry up and wait.....and wait. 🙂
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Thank you for that AWESOME overview. Yup….now we wait. Many thanks!
 
I concur with Newport122; it's fascinating to have a glimpse behind the curtain. It also helps to know what's going on while we wait.
 
Newport122 said:
The first board meets mid-October and my DD’s package will be in the first board.
  • How long until results are made?
  • What is the notification process?
  • Her NCC has been great; does the NCC present their candidate?
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How do you know that her package will be in the first board?
 
That’s interesting (and I do really appreciate you responding). By “advisor”, do you mean the local scholarship coordinator? I ask because our DS had all of his items submitted by 8/5 and his coordinator didn’t share any info regarding the earliest board for which it would be available for review. (Also, I apologize if my original question seemed like I was being a smarta$$. My wife thought it did and, well, we’ve “talked” through that…)
 
In our case, DS did not submit his NROTC Nurse Option package until ALL college acceptances were received. They were all received by Thanksgiving of 2021 due to applying to all by Oct 1st. Package transmitted complete Dec 4th, Zoom Interview with "First Choice School" for which he was already ACCEPTED was vital, we feel to his getting awarded the scholarship. We know his package sat as an Alternate because his scholarship was not awarded until April 6th, 2021.
 
Toolman002 said:
That’s interesting (and I do really appreciate you responding). By “advisor”, do you mean the local scholarship coordinator? I ask because our DS had all of his items submitted by 8/5 and his coordinator didn’t share any info regarding the earliest board for which it would be available for review. (Also, I apologize if my original question seemed like I was being a smarta$$. My wife thought it did and, well, we’ve “talked” through that…)
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Not sure why that info wouldn’t have been shared, but I would guess that if his package is complete - it will be submitted for the October 17th board. Our advisor told us “I have on schedule the first board is to take place October 17-21. Results are generally out within two weeks afterwards. Following the October board there are eight additional boards between November 2022 and March 2023. There is one additional board in April for students who have marked an interest in and applied to an MSISR school.”

My DD was selected for an ISR 🤩 Waiting on final confirmation.
 
That’s awesome! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been catching up on what that entails. From what I’ve read, that means she was (is) impressive enough to have her app pulled out for immediate consideration; thus skipping the normal review process. I’ve seen several posts where it does take a while for them to be officially awarded…
 
People have been more patient this year or at least it seems that way to me. By now people are usually asking about board dates.

In case anyone missed it when I posted this a while back, the attached slides have some good basic information on this year's NROTC schedule.

And it has all the board dates.
 

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GWU PNS said:
People have been more patient this year or at least it seems that way to me. By now people are usually asking about board dates.
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I would submit that this observation is directly related to the information provided by a certain forthcoming and supportive PNS who happens to enjoy a decent cigar.😎
 
GWU PNS said:
When the board completes the scoring, a "cut line" is made and applicants scoring at or above the line are selectees. They will be notified by email from the Naval Service Training Command and many times the PNS from their school will also call or email.

There will also be a number of people who were not selectees but they made it onto the list of Alternates. The alternates will be grouped when all boarda are completed and then they will be chosen based on openings that occur over the board season.

Many people think non selects are placed in a big bin and get looked at on the next boards. That does NOT happen. Your record is scored, and that score is locked in.
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With regards to the highlighted statement above. I understand that an application is only graded once and scored once, but If a student is not selected first board, can he or she be selected on the next board or is it only possible to be selected on the final board of the season?

For example if an application receives a 95 out of 100 and the cut line at the first board is 96, is there a possiblity that the cut line at the second board becomes 94 and then the 95 application becomes a selectee?

Hope that is not too confusing. Just trying to understand what happens next since it doesnt appear my son made the first cut on the first board but some schools require early decision commitment by January 1.(i.e. Vanderbilt)
 
Generally speaking, there is one board a month from October through December. Then there are 2 boards per month from January through April. Last year, the decisions for those on an alternate list weren't made until February.

If someone was very close on the first board, they might be selected and reported out on the November or December boards. But those are fairly rare occurances.
 
Newport122 said:
Not sure why that info wouldn’t have been shared, but I would guess that if his package is complete - it will be submitted for the October 17th board. Our advisor told us “I have on schedule the first board is to take place October 17-21. Results are generally out within two weeks afterwards. Following the October board there are eight additional boards between November 2022 and March 2023. There is one additional board in April for students who have marked an interest in and applied to an MSISR school.”

My DD was selected for an ISR 🤩 Waiting on final confirmation.
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Just wanted to congratulate your DD (and those who provided support😉) on her official award. Our DS made it as well. He texted me as soon as he received the group e-mail and asked "IS THIS IT?!"😎

FLY NAVY & WAR EAGLE!
 
Question regarding the timing of the submission of the application for the board. Our DS is about to submit his application, but we are suggesting one more review and edit. If the board is meeting Nov 14-18, will an application that is submitted on Nov 18th be reviewed or will it be pushed to the next board?
 
It will be pushed to the next board. There are boards each month. It's wiser to send in the best application possible rather than rush to make a particular board.
 
Stingray said:
Question regarding the timing of the submission of the application for the board. Our DS is about to submit his application, but we are suggesting one more review and edit. If the board is meeting Nov 14-18, will an application that is submitted on Nov 18th be reviewed or will it be pushed to the next board?
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Everything Kinnem just posted is accurate, but I wanted to add one subtle point for anyone submitting packages in December. The applications tend to flow in around xmas break, so just because someone submits an application in mid December, there's no guarantee it goes to the first board in January. But they will generally get boarded within 2 weeks of getting to NSTC.
 
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