I know this forum is a tiny sample size, but my OAR score is among the lower half. I’m so anxious to go to OCS since it’s taken me 3 years already to get to this point. I just want to hedge my bets and make sure I can get in for the next board just in case.
I know how you feel… but we got this!!! We are going to make it
I also started studying to take it again, just in case. It's not that I'm not confident in my application as a whole, because I am. But when there's 171 people applying, it doesn't matter if there are 171 spots available, the Supply Board isn't accepting 171 people.
Hell yeah
You’re forgetting that they didn’t do a board in July and due to that, all those people rolled over so now the navy has to pick twice as much applicants to make up for missing last board
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Does this also mean SWO will have a high acceptance rate as well for the SEP board?
That was just for supply SWO had their boards
No, I know that the large amount of applicants is due to the board being pushed. I was one of the rolled over people. I'm just saying whether there were 20 people applying or 200 people applying, the board isn't going to have a 100% acceptance rate.
That isn't how boards work.
Enlighten us please
NRC distributes the available spots across all available boards, when they come out with a new board schedule they recalculate and adjust, when they get updated goals at the end of the year they recalculate and adjust. NRC always tries to make sure the spots available are even for each board. NRC also increased the number of Supply boards to increase the frequency as it provides a better flow of candidates and workflow.
So considering the last board accepted 53 candidates, that would mean they're most likely going to accept approximately the same number of candidates for this board?
Hard to predict, you have the number of boards increasing and they should be including the estimate for the next years needs until they get the hard goals. This means there are too many variables to make any type of guess. The other thing is that Supply is one of the designators that has in the past not used all the spots they can give out if they feel the candidates aren't good enough to select, the last board selected 53, maybe they had 53 to give, or maybe they had more than that but just didn't like the remaining candidates.