so does anyone happen to know why these boards merged together? From my understanding, this March board is a merger of the January, February, and March applicants. Is this correct?
Does this mean that there will be only one month's worth of open spots, for THREE months worth of applicants???!!! Or will there be more open spots for more applicants? :/
I just cant figure why these boards are merged together and whether it hurts or helps us applicants with being selected.
The January board was held, and it consisted of some people that had applied as far back as October. People like me, who were either late to January or in the February board got rolled to March, since they cancelled the February board. My recruiter said the reasoning behind this was that there were so many applicants for the January board, due to all the rollovers, they weren't sure if they would have time to review a February board.
My recruiter also said that THEY know what percentage of the applicants they want selected before they go in, so regardless of how many there are, there will be X% selected. And they know that when there are months with a lot of applicants, like January, its not necessarily because a lot more people are getting interested in the navy, but more so that a lot of people have been rolled from previous months.
Also, she predicted that January would probably be a bad board to be in because it was going to be filling up the last of its quota for 2010, and its better to be reviewed in a month that is starting a quota (like this March) rather than finishing one up. She was right, the selection rate for January was pretty bad, just hoping shes also right about March being a good month to apply.
BUT, you've always got to keep in the back of your mind that there are only a select few that actually know whats going to happen on a given board. And those select few aren't your recruiters nor the people sharing their wisdom on Air Warriors. The best we can do is collaborate all of the nonsense we hear with one another and then speculate for months....only to laugh at ourselves when its all over when we find out how wrong we all were.
