OCS 11AUG25 IWC BOARD // Nerd Thunderdome 2025

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I went into a recruiting office where I’m located and asked if they could pull up SharePoint to check for any results. Nothing has been posted yet for IWC. The most recent results were for Supply, released on 02 SEP. I’m an IP applicant, and he was able to pull up the at-board numbers—there were 65. I don’t know anything about the other designators. *Continues to twiddle thumbs*

 

[4thClass]

I went into a recruiting office where I’m located and asked if they could pull up SharePoint to check for any results. Nothing has been posted yet for IWC. The most recent results were for Supply, released on 02 SEP. I’m an IP applicant, and he was able to pull up the at-board numbers—there were 65. I don’t know anything about the other designators. *Continues to twiddle thumbs*

Noticed the same but hopefully they are out soon. Sometimes they don't post the results for all the board on the sharepoint so sadly that may not be a 100 percent answer but congrats to the AMDO, SUPPOs and SWOs that made it!

 

[OceanBlue]

Ok I'm going to speculate a little because maybe it makes the wait more bearable. If mods don't like this I will delete.

There's only one IWC board for the entirety of 2025 that's open to civilian applicants for Intel. I have no idea what the quotas are, however it seems like either Intel is fully manned or they've filled enough slots for OCS to where they can't ship anymore people now. I know that there are 145 Intel applicants from my OR which is higher than usual numbers, but also within past ranges.

Hopefully, the delay in releasing board results is because of a large number of selected applicants. It presumably takes a while to notify active enlisted through their commands about board results. Everyone ideally gets notified at the same time to avoid confusion.

In scanning through the forum, it seems like Intel selected as low at 3% in 2015-2016 and as high as 25% in 2023. I think there's three possibilities for the 11AUG25 board:

1) Indicated by all of the canceled boards, Intel is full and will select very few civilian applicants.
2) FY2026 is open and since there are so few boards, Intel will take more than usual applicants to meet quota.
3) Neither of the two above situations apply, and Intel takes roughly the same 10-20% of applicants it's accepted since 2023ish.

There's many externalities to this board going on that haven't been mentioned. One is that some DoD (DoW?) budgets are in a limbo state in Congress. Another is that there is a federal hiring freeze since January that may continue through to October. Finally, many boards in other designators (SNA, SUPP) are experiencing changes of some kind. There's a whole big picture out there that is just unknown to civilian applicants.

 

[WhiteShiningTin]

There's many externalities to this board going on that haven't been mentioned. One is that some DoD (DoW?) budgets are in a limbo state in Congress. Another is that there is a federal hiring freeze since January that may continue through to October. Finally, many boards in other designators (SNA, SUPP) are experiencing changes of some kind. There's a whole big picture out there that is just unknown to civilian applicants.

Well I think it’s more about - regardless of how things are running, all we can do as applicants is to just do our best with the package, submit ASAP and hope for the best.

I don’t like whining, but if I had to, I just regret not being born in the US in the first place(LOL), having taken too long to finally immigrate at age 28 and becoming a US citizen in my early 30s just to be eligible to apply for a position. And just to speculate, it seems like it would get harder to get into the military.

I just try to focus on things I can control and keep myself busy.

 

[Beastmode1776]

What happens to packets that were submitted to this board, but qualify for ISEL under the new PA? Are they weighed against other packets with the risk of being PROREC-N? Are they pulled from the board and sent straight to OCM?

This seems rather unprecedented based on old forums.

 

[Gandalf_Actual]

What happens to packets that were submitted to this board, but qualify for ISEL under the new PA?

Obvious disclaimer that I’m just a guy on the outside of this window looking in, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot of folks among this board’s ~145 intel applicants who qualify for I-SEL under the new PA.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but a 3.3 GPA and 55 OAR threshold isn’t exactly reaching for the far beyond when it comes to a lot of the degree programs that PA targets (all the more so now, I’d argue, with GPA averages rising year on year across many degree programs - but that’s a whole separate can of beans). The “no waivers” business probably takes a fair number of folks out of the I-SEL running, sure - but the Intel community also tends to attract a lot of applicants who generally kept their noses clean throughout college. Even if the board were to just toss out everyone with non-medical waivers (which would be a colossally bad idea on it’s face), that could still leave them with more applicants than they’re authorized to pick up at this time (and I’d wager more than most Intel boards have tended to pick up in a single convening over the last few years).

At least from the scuttlebutt I’m hearing, I think there’s still reason to assume that, regardless of whether you qualify for I-SEL under the new Intel PA or not, if your name was on the list for the 11 Aug board, your package is going to get a full review and fair shake against those of everyone else listed alongside you.