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01JUN26 SNA/SNFO board

123412131 said:
It's a general use form and other designators do read LORs and motivational statements. Aviation doesn't care; they're after applicants who have the desired quantitative scores (ASTB, GPA) that historically demonstrate you won't flunk out of training. Each applicant is looked at for like 60 seconds.
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Which score holds more weight? Astb or GPA
 
123412131 said:
It's a general use form and other designators do read LORs and motivational statements. Aviation doesn't care; they're after applicants who have the desired quantitative scores (ASTB, GPA) that historically demonstrate you won't flunk out of training. Each applicant is looked at for like 60 seconds.
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It’s funny that’s how it is but I get it. We had a guy come from my flight program that taxied a plane into a stationary object and he just got done with OCS for an SNA slot. He was like 9,9,8 or something like that. The Navy will never know the liability in an aircraft though.
 
Dbpilot said:
It’s funny that’s how it is but I get it. We had a guy come from my flight program that taxied a plane into a stationary object and he just got done with OCS for an SNA slot. He was like 9,9,8 or something like that. The Navy will never know the liability in an aircraft though.
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Better_on_backnine said:
Really?
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Yes. I’m not exactly sure how they weigh it tbh, but I do know it’s a factor they consider
 
123412131 said:
It's a general use form and other designators do read LORs and motivational statements. Aviation doesn't care; they're after applicants who have the desired quantitative scores (ASTB, GPA) that historically demonstrate you won't flunk out of training. Each applicant is looked at for like 60 seconds.
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Damn it must be like 250,000 applied not 250 if they only spend 60 seconds per applicant 💀
 
mc9803 said:
I’m also curious how they weight it if anyone even knows. Hoping my major offsets my low-ish gpa.
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If it's anything like NROTC, it's not a lot. I think the gouge at my SMC amongst the cadets was that a technical major was worth 10 points and a non-technical was worth 7.5 out of the 100 available points.

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Thread 'Should I switch majors. Engineering to Flight'

I am currently in my first semester at Purdue University as an engineering major. While Purdue is a great engineering school, it also has a good baccalaureate flight program. Pretty much the only reason I'm in the engineering program is because my family suggested it and I needed to major in something. But now that I'm here it just seems weird to be putting this much time and effort into a degree that doesn't really interest me and I have no intention of using. Because of this I have been considering switching my major to professional flight. I have enough credits from high school...

Here's an old thread talking about it but it's from 2018 and things might've changed.
 
mc9803 said:
I’m also curious how they weight it if anyone even knows. Hoping my major offsets my low-ish gpa.
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Focus on the ASTB. That’s how I approached it but I guess that’s to be seen where I end up. I’m 6,7,7. The Navy prioritizes the ASTB as the primary from what I understand. Most people can just AI or cheat their GPA anymore from what it seems.
 
Dbpilot said:
Focus on the ASTB. That’s how I approached it but I guess that’s to be seen where I end up. I’m 6,7,7. The Navy prioritizes the ASTB as the primary from what I understand. Most people can just AI or cheat their GPA anymore from what it seems.
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That’s reassuring I think really my only weak point is my gpa (2.84 in mechanical engineering technology) my ASTB is 54 7/8/7
 
Dbpilot said:
That gives me some hope you said that. My recruiting office thought it’s possible I didn’t get picked up for that in September (I don’t think a 6,6,7 was good enough to begin with). I have an application comment regarding that use but it’s been years back in the early college baseball days. I just wasn’t sure if they look farther than the application itself. I had someone else reply saying they don’t read the motivational statement or LOR so I wasn’t sure if they took the application comments into consideration. I appreciate the insight, thank you.
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They basically didn’t pick up anyone for the September board lol but yeah I heard how the weed thing affect the final decision can vary by who’s looking at your application. I think it also comes down to whether they can just take someone with the same or better score that didn’t use marijuana though; I was ISEL rolled back to regular board back in September due to experimental weed usage, exactly like another guy but he had 9/9/9 and a 4.0 while I had 8/8/7 3.02 and he got picked up. We both didn’t need any weed waivers since we both used less than ten times. So the scores really did make a difference; I used the time after that board to bump my gpa up to about 3.15. Still, at the end of the day, the most important factor is just the needs of the Navy and how many slots are there to give out lol, so basically luck.
 
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