Okay, if you haven't taken the OAR yet, I'm pretty sure you haven't been professionally recommended by the board.All I know is I have recommendation letters from Capt. & Commander XO.
Great interviews and recommendation from the board ...the prof. board rec.
The steps go: you fill out your application, including the aptitude tests as required (in your case, the OAR), the application then goes to a board of officers who review it and others, they make a decision based on how many slots they can give away at that point, and they come back with either: "Pro-rec Y" which is a yes, Pro-rec N" which is a no, or "Pro-rec X" which means your application wasn't seen at that board for some reason (somebody effed it up along the way).