How do you go to OCS if you are enlisted in the Army?

You are on the money with your response.

yes that what i thought it was

how do you make it part of your enlistment contract? and whats the board like?

When you go in to enlist, you tell the recruiters you want the “college option OCS” route. Then the station OIC should guide you from there. I don’t know what the board is like to a person off the street. For me they went through my file, asked me questions about leadership decisions I have made, etc. Couple of things to consider. You must have a college degree. You need to work at basic training to have at least all 60s on your PT test, and you must be aware that if you don’t make OCS, then you still serve under a “needs of the Army” MOS. In my first week of OCS, many college Ops failed out because the standard to graduate basic is 50s on your PT test but the standard to “class up” in OCS is 60s. A lot of guys failed. Also, I don’t know if it’s like this now, but when I went the class was overbooked so they took the highest 75% PT scores and the rest didn’t class up. So you not only need 60s, you will need to be competitive if that still happens today. Our cutoff was pretty high, 275 if I recall. Our class was 66 percent prior service though so we kind of jacked up the curve.