This is the comment I posted on Adrianne's family's blog:
I was accepted to AFIT last January for the Electrical Eng, Aeronautical Eng, and Material Science. In June I sent an application to the assignment folks who choose who of the people that were accepted by the school get to go. 113 people applied for MS programs. 35 were selected. I was not selected. This means that I will not be sponsored by the Air Force to go to any graduate school this coming year; in other words, if I want to get a master's during the coming year I do it after work on my own time. I can apply again next year--though I retain my acceptance from the school--I only have to apply to the assignment people.
I assume that the board placed greater emphasis on something other than academics because that's what I geared my application towards and I am confident I am stronger academically than the 66% who did not get selected. My record that they were able to review is pretty weak in areas of leadership and experience (I only had 1 professional military education and 1 year's worth of evaluation in my record when they reveiwed it). I don't know what the board was looking for, though. They don't ever say.
He doesn't have to have leadership. He just has to have more experience in his career. When he first applied he was only in for a year and he wasn't given a lot of responsibility. Now, he has been in longer and has a lot of responsibility. He will appy again next year.
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Mike is done being sad. You may talk to him now.
I am still sad for him. So what does this mean?
This is the comment I posted on Adrianne's family's blog:
I was accepted to AFIT last January for the Electrical Eng, Aeronautical Eng, and Material Science. In June I sent an application to the assignment folks who choose who of the people that were accepted by the school get to go. 113 people applied for MS programs. 35 were selected. I was not selected. This means that I will not be sponsored by the Air Force to go to any graduate school this coming year; in other words, if I want to get a master's during the coming year I do it after work on my own time. I can apply again next year--though I retain my acceptance from the school--I only have to apply to the assignment people.
I assume that the board placed greater emphasis on something other than academics because that's what I geared my application towards and I am confident I am stronger academically than the 66% who did not get selected. My record that they were able to review is pretty weak in areas of leadership and experience (I only had 1 professional military education and 1 year's worth of evaluation in my record when they reveiwed it). I don't know what the board was looking for, though. They don't ever say.
So will you try and take some more leadership classes, etc and apply again next year?
He doesn't have to have leadership. He just has to have more experience in his career. When he first applied he was only in for a year and he wasn't given a lot of responsibility. Now, he has been in longer and has a lot of responsibility. He will appy again next year.
I meant to say he doesn't have to take leadership classes, but he does need more leadership experiences.
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