USMA vs ROTC

Your daughter needs to decide if her primary goal is medicine or serving in the Army. Both ROTC and USMA will enable her to commission as a 2LT, but medicine is no guarantee out of USMA. (Fewer than ten were selected for med school from our son’s class of ‘19, all in the top 3% of the class.) There are several threads on this topic in the service academy sub forums here, but even better discussions over on the serviceacademyforums.com site where your daughter can get her questions answered by current military personnel, including military MDs.

If her primary goal is medicine, USMA is not the way to go. She has a better chance of earning an MD as a civilian and can commission with the Army after (this is the route most Army MDs take).

ETA: The link in that older thread I highlighted no longer resolves correctly. The article can be found here.

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