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What is a good OAR score for CEC Collegiate?

beezgobuzz

New Member
I'm applying for the June '19 board. I have a ~3.8 GPA and go to a Top 5 university in California. I also have a great share of extra curriculars, including volunteering and professional academic groups. I plan to take the OAR exam in 2-3 weeks. What is a good score for the Collegiate Program?

I appreciate all the help!
 

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
I'm applying for the June '19 board. I have a ~3.8 GPA and go to a Top 5 university in California. I also have a great share of extra curriculars, including volunteering and professional academic groups. I plan to take the OAR exam in 2-3 weeks. What is a good score for the Collegiate Program?

I appreciate all the help!

Ask your recruiter.
 

BSchroth

Active Member
I'm applying for the June '19 board. I have a ~3.8 GPA and go to a Top 5 university in California. I also have a great share of extra curriculars, including volunteering and professional academic groups. I plan to take the OAR exam in 2-3 weeks. What is a good score for the Collegiate Program?

I appreciate all the help!
I have applied for the April 22 board, and scored a 52 and have a 3.6 GPA. from talking to my recruiter and my accessions officer during my interview the OAR is almost a non-factor. There is no minimum score. It is mainly to back up your GPA. I did not take the OAR when I had my interview and it was not a big deal. I wanted to study to get the highest possible score I could.



A story my accessions offer told me at my interview. A candidate had a 2.8 GPA and scored a 75 on the OAR. The accessions officer want to understand how he could have such a low GPA and score so high on the OAR. His answer was, worked 40 hours a week and hade two kids while attending college. He did not have time to complete all the assignments and homework. Makes perfect sense and the accessions officer noted the reason. He was selected.



The most import part of the process is the interview. Do your research on the CEC and why you want to join. The job of the accessions officer is to evaluate you and sell you to the other board members.
 

exNavyOffRec

Well-Known Member
I have applied for the April 22 board, and scored a 52 and have a 3.6 GPA. from talking to my recruiter and my accessions officer during my interview the OAR is almost a non-factor. There is no minimum score. It is mainly to back up your GPA. I did not take the OAR when I had my interview and it was not a big deal. I wanted to study to get the highest possible score I could.



A story my accessions offer told me at my interview. A candidate had a 2.8 GPA and scored a 75 on the OAR. The accessions officer want to understand how he could have such a low GPA and score so high on the OAR. His answer was, worked 40 hours a week and hade two kids while attending college. He did not have time to complete all the assignments and homework. Makes perfect sense and the accessions officer noted the reason. He was selected.



The most import part of the process is the interview. Do your research on the CEC and why you want to join. The job of the accessions officer is to evaluate you and sell you to the other board members.

There are some exceptions, but it really depends on who the accessions officer is and what their views are, that guy was lucky, there was one who was a similar type background and the accessions officer said his low GPA while working a few jobs and being married just showed he didn't know how to properly time manage.

I also had a candidate with a low 3's GPA who I wrote a really good OR writeup on, the candidate had an accessions officer interview did well, and during the board I rec'd a phone call from another accessions officer who wanted to ask me questions about the candidate and why I wrote such a good writeup, I told the accessions officer how I had met the family and they had immigrated and this candidate was the first of their family to go to college, felt a desire to serve to give back, etc...... the result was selection!

bottom line, CEC really depends on the accessions officers, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.
 

nicken

Member
I had 49, not a great score compared to other candidates that I've seen here but I got pro-rec last week. NavyOffRec is right. CEC really depends on the accessions officers. After I had the accession officer interview, I was waiting on other requirements to be done like CO letter and other interviews so I was planning to take another OAR while waiting but my accession officer sent me this email

"There is currently no minimum, but 45 is the minimum for some other communities and 50+ is generally what we see. However, OAR is a pretty small part of our overall evaluation and gets compared with work history, degree/gpa, community involvement and leadership potential among other things. If you don’t make this board, you can certainly retake it if you’d like, but I don’t think where it currently sits affects your overall application much with the board."

So as long as your other stuff are good enough and excel on the accession officer interview, you'll be golden
 
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exNavyOffRec

Well-Known Member
I had 49, not a great score compared to other candidates that I've seen here but I got pro-rec last week. NavyOffRec is right. CEC really depends on the accessions officers. After I had the accession officer interview, I was waiting on other requirements to be done like CO letter and other interviews so I was planning to take another OAR while waiting but my accession officer sent me this email

"There is currently no minimum, but 45 is the minimum for some other communities and 50+ is generally what we see. However, OAR is a pretty small part of our overall evaluation and gets compared with work history, degree/gpa, community involvement and leadership potential among other things. If you don’t make this board, you can certainly retake it if you’d like, but I don’t think where it currently sits affects your overall application much with the board."

So as long as your other stuff are good enough and excel on the accession officer interview, you'll be golden
one thing to remember is until recently CEC applicants didn't need to take the OAR, it was more pushed on the community from my understanding, so that is probably why they give it little weight.
 

beezgobuzz

New Member
I had 49, not a great score compared to other candidates that I've seen here but I got pro-rec last week. NavyOffRec is right. CEC really depends on the accessions officers. After I had the accession officer interview, I was waiting on other requirements to be done like CO letter and other interviews so I was planning to take another OAR while waiting but my accession officer sent me this email

"There is currently no minimum, but 45 is the minimum for some other communities and 50+ is generally what we see. However, OAR is a pretty small part of our overall evaluation and gets compared with work history, degree/gpa, community involvement and leadership potential among other things. If you don’t make this board, you can certainly retake it if you’d like, but I don’t think where it currently sits affects your overall application much with the board."

So as long as your other stuff are good enough and excel on the accession officer interview, you'll be golden

I ended up getting a 58 on the OAR. You got selected last week? I thought the July board was July 22? I applied through the collegiate program, not sure if that has a different date.
 

nicken

Member
I ended up getting a 58 on the OAR. You got selected last week? I thought the July board was July 22? I applied through the collegiate program, not sure if that has a different date.
I applied for active, not the collegiate program so it might be different but yeah got a phone call from my accession officer on the 19th and heard I was pro-rec. He said the board was held on the 18th, not the 22th. I don't know why.
 

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
I applied for active, not the collegiate program so it might be different but yeah got a phone call from my accession officer on the 19th and heard I was pro-rec. He said the board was held on the 18th, not the 22th. I don't know why.

As stated countless times, the board dates on the board schedule are placeholders which can be adjusted to the left or right by the community.
 
Hello all,
Thank you all for the great gouge thus far. As for the degree plan that must be submitted as part of the application for the Collegiate Program, what are the requirements from the school? I have reached out to recruiters in my area, but it has been a few days, and no response. Given the covid environment, my school's advisors are slammed with zoom meetings, virtually non-stop, so speaking to an advisor is difficult, presently.

In spite of that, I've built a degree plan that gets me inside the 24-month window required for application, but the advisor is asking me what the degree plan needs to say, with what verbiage that will suffice with this program. She is also hesitant to certify it, because as she says: "this plan is a rough forecast of the classes you can take in each term, however, there is no guarantee that these specific classes will be available to enroll in. The class schedule, while mostly routine, fluctuates, so if a situation arises where a class is not available, your degree plan can fall through."

Thank you all, in advance!
 

exNavyOffRec

Well-Known Member
Hello all,
Thank you all for the great gouge thus far. As for the degree plan that must be submitted as part of the application for the Collegiate Program, what are the requirements from the school? I have reached out to recruiters in my area, but it has been a few days, and no response. Given the covid environment, my school's advisors are slammed with zoom meetings, virtually non-stop, so speaking to an advisor is difficult, presently.

In spite of that, I've built a degree plan that gets me inside the 24-month window required for application, but the advisor is asking me what the degree plan needs to say, with what verbiage that will suffice with this program. She is also hesitant to certify it, because as she says: "this plan is a rough forecast of the classes you can take in each term, however, there is no guarantee that these specific classes will be available to enroll in. The class schedule, while mostly routine, fluctuates, so if a situation arises where a class is not available, your degree plan can fall through."

Thank you all, in advance!
It is a form supplied by the USN for you to have filled out and signed by your advisor
 
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