question about the preliminary application

[Luigi59]

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@DSL1990

advisable for what reason? what gets affected if you turn in your preliminary application later?

@2012mom

• Once your “final” application materials are at least 50% complete, you can (if assigned a candidate number) start the DoDMERB process. Believe me, this can take longer than anything, if you have to do remedials and wait for waivers.

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<p>2012mom nailed it. The sooner you can start the DODMERB process, the better. Even a “best-case fully qualified” result can take about 6 weeks to from exam to post. If you a have remedial or two, or even a disqualification, the waiver process can be ponderous. </p>

<p>You could spend your entire winter and half the spring waiting to find out, and that’s for a timely (Aug-Oct) exam date. If you wait to complete the application until December, your DODMERB exam won’t be until January or Feb, and you may run out of time while you are waiting.</p>

<p>There was even a horror story last year here at CC where an accepted candidate’s medical waiver was approved in the summer, 1 month after the candidate SHOULD have attended I-day processing. Too late.</p>