@ all IDC Officer recruiters or anyone in the know - I know this has been beaten to absolute death, but can someone come up with a straightforward no BS general competitive profile for an IP applicant? Intel applicant? I do have the PDF file of some old Navy General Officer thingy where it lists general factors for various designators, but can someone paint an even clearer picture for IP/Intel?
Preferably someone who was actually accepted for IP and/or Intel? OAR scores? Are technical majors for IP an absolute, or one of those "strongly preferred"? I have had recruiters tell me in the past that some IP selects have had non-tech degrees, please verify/discredit?
Thanks in advance fellow AW'ers
To start with "competitive profile" to NRC does not mean profiles of those selected, it just means a profile of a person that would have a realistic shot at the board/what recruiters should look for.
General factors is all you will see the USN put out, and who is picked will depend on what the senior member wants, if he puts a high precedence on tech degrees then they will have an advantage, early on when they made tech degrees "strongly preferred" the mix they wanted to shoot for on Intel was 60% tech and 40% non tech.
Don't be very concerned about OAR as long as you are above the qualifying score, there have been many picked with OAR's in the 40's, the big thing is degree and GPA, a person with an EE and 3.5 with 45 OAR is going to look better than a person with history degree and 3.5 with a 60 OAR.
IP is a tiny designator, just a handful a year, seen it at 0, 2, 6, and 10 it just depends, because of that they can (like all IDC) be very picky, I have seen a few with non tech degrees picked, but they also had come from IDC enlisted field, or had taken lots of calc/physics/other tech classes early on in college, they are going to be in a very tech field so that is what the board looks for.
Take all the ideal factors and get as close as you can, some will have more weight than others, and then hope, because with selection rates hovering around 10% or so the chances are very low, and of the ones that aren't selected I would say the vast majority fit a "competitive profile".
