Hey everyone! Sorry I have a lot of questions but I’ve been stressing out over this for what seems like ages! I was finally able to submit my NROTC scholarship app in the first week of January (it got held up A LOT by a massive amount of technical issues and some unfortunate delays in my school sending out my letters of recommendation and final grades etc.) and I got my interview in shortly after. I’ve been waiting ever since then, and right now the portal says “The NSTC selection/placement office has received your application” and below it says “no decision has been made on your application” and a bunch of other info. I’ve been checking a lot of previous threads and I know I shouldn’t expect anything just yet because it’s still fairly early, but I have a few questions anyway.
So a few weeks ago I got an email saying I’d received an AFROTC scholarship and of course I’m really excited about that (!!!), but Navy is my first choice. I know the scholarship boards look for slightly different qualities if they’re Air Force or Navy, but considering I got good news regarding the AFROTC scholarship, does that say anything about my chances for the NROTC scholarship? I’ve seen some threads saying sometimes recruiters will know what’s up before you get any news via snail mail or portal (both are notoriously slow), but is it too early on to try to give my recruiter a call to see if he knows anything, and would that actually be helpful?
Another question I have has to do with the DODMERB. I think I’ve seen people mention in other posts that if NROTC is going to award a scholarship, they’ll request the physical from DODMERB. When I log in to check my medical status on the DODMERB website, the only agencies I see that have requested anything so far are AFROTC (which I expected) and the USAFA. Nothing yet from USNA or NROTC–does that mean anything bad? I had to get a remedial for a slightly elevated heart rate, and the remedial showed everything healthy and good to go (this was about a week/two weeks ago so I’m officially triple Q’d), so that might have something to do with it, but it’s odd that both AFROTC and USAFA sent me a request for a remedial letter and have checked out my physical, while no indication NROTC or USNA have. Can anyone weigh in on what that might mean? 