Forgot to post an update a few weeks ago, long story short I got denied. Considering the odds we're talking about here (6 people selected) I'm gonna take rufio and others' advice. Time to forget about intel and get a SWO package submitted in December. My recruiter is saying something about applying for SWO-INTEL in January... This smells like BS to me because from skimming old threads here, I was under the impression that was a super niche thing reserved for a few academy grads and/or possibly prior service folks? Might be wrong on that. Either way, I'm not interested in aviation and I'm cool with SWO, so I'm just gonna go with that and try to get another postgrad internship done before December.
edit: just saw rufio's post in this thread about swo-iwc... well that's one mystery solved.