The thought of that O-1E pay with full benefits has me salivatingWell, that’s why you’re here right? Fly jets and cash checks? That doesn’t rhyme huh?
The thought of that O-1E pay with full benefits has me salivatingWell, that’s why you’re here right? Fly jets and cash checks? That doesn’t rhyme huh?
Oh I’m sure! I’ll take a temp pay cut to yank and bank.The thought of that O-1E pay with full benefits has me salivating
They have never been hurting for bodies, that is the rumor shady recruiters have used to get people to apply fast instead of taking the time to get good scores.I believe it fluctuates. There's been times in history where they're hurting so bad for bodies that straight 5's would get your foot in the door.
Yeah I mean I have heard that BDCP is a little harder to get into than applying normally. My GPA is worrying me as well but I feel like my LORs and personal statement are strong as well as a pretty decent ASTB. But no clue if they read those LORs or personal statement. I am getting a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology which is a STEM degreeYour GPA is a little close to the threshold of 2.8 which might spook them a bit. What's your major in? A STEM degree makes you more competitive for it
I saw some guys got picked up with a 6 PFAR last board but no clue if they were ISPP. If anything I have heard a 7 is more in the middle than anything. I also do have my PPL but I heard that gives no weight to the boards even if I do show I was taking college classes while working towards it. No clue how different parts of an application weigh on a BDCP appHave 7s always been considered "ok" with respect to previous boards? I remember seeing somewhere that all 7s was basically a "Yes" from the board, but that's obviously not the case now.
Also, according to this website, a 7 means you did better than 77%-89% of other people. It doesn't specify whether or not that's everyone who's ever taken the ASTB.
Oh I realize I could make way more money out of the navy with my degree… but this is chasing something bigger than money. The prior enlisted pay bump though will make a nice differenceThe thought of that O-1E pay with full benefits has me salivating
You could always get a job at a large defense contractor and reap that differential pay benefit
In general I think it’ll be interesting to see how many of us going for the BDCP actually get selected since the navy isn’t getting anything out of us until we graduate. LOR’s are where I’m scrambling right now. So far only one of my profs has gotten back to me with one and my boss is taking his sweet time with it. Also need my advisor to get me my graduation planYeah I mean I have heard that BDCP is a little harder to get into than applying normally. My GPA is worrying me as well but I feel like my LORs and personal statement are strong as well as a pretty decent ASTB. But no clue if they read those LORs or personal statement. I am getting a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology which is a STEM degree
BDCP will pay more attention to GPA than a normal board as they want to make sure a person will graduate, I had and saw several picked up before they put the program on hold and we had several with great ASTB scores with GPA's just above 3.0 that were told "No" but when they graduated were picked up right away.Yeah I mean I have heard that BDCP is a little harder to get into than applying normally. My GPA is worrying me as well but I feel like my LORs and personal statement are strong as well as a pretty decent ASTB. But no clue if they read those LORs or personal statement. I am getting a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology which is a STEM degree
I saw some guys got picked up with a 6 PFAR last board but no clue if they were ISPP. If anything I have heard a 7 is more in the middle than anything. I also do have my PPL but I heard that gives no weight to the boards even if I do show I was taking college classes while working towards it. No clue how different parts of an application weigh on a BDCP app
Im talking about differential pay. Its when your civilian job pays the difference between your civilian job and military job. Not sure if thats something you can do in the BDCP program though.Oh I realize I could make way more money out of the navy with my degree… but this is chasing something bigger than money. The prior enlisted pay bump though will make a nice difference
To be completely honest I’ve never heard of thatIm talking about differential pay. Its when your civilian job pays the difference between your civilian job and military job. Not sure if thats something you can do in the BDCP program though.
What benefit does this do for a recruiter? Do they have quotas for just having people apply ?They have never been hurting for bodies, that is the rumor shady recruiters have used to get people to apply fast instead of taking the time to get good scores.
They have done that, they want so many application from each recruiter, it can vary but unfortunately there are recruiters that don't think of the applicant, only themselves.What benefit does this do for a recruiter? Do they have quotas for just having people apply ?
They have quotas for everything, last time it was a percentage of the shipping goal since they wanted BDCP grads to ship right after their graduation.@exNavyOffRec do you know anything about any quotas with BDCP? Like if they hit a certain number of accepted applicants navy wide they’ll stop accepting for that FY?
That makes sense. I’m looking at probably finishing school around the beginning of FY2025 so that’s my hope to graduate and ship. Newport in the winter should be a lot of funThey have quotas for everything, last time it was a percentage of the shipping goal since they wanted BDCP grads to ship right after their graduation.