ARMY ROTC Scholarship Chances/Help?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am going into my Senior year of high school and am applying for an Army ROTC scholarship to several schools listed below. If there is anything absent from my list, let me know and I'll fill it in. This isn't a comprehensive list with every nitpicky thing, but these are most substantial credentials at this point in time. For whoever can help, thank you.</p>

<p>Academic Information:</p>

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<li>GPA: 3.2 UW/ 3.6 W</li>
<li>ACT: 33 Composite w/ 10 Writing</li>
<li>School Doesn't Rank Estimate Top 40 or 30 Percentile</li>
<li>Year Progression: Freshman (3.4 W), Sophomore (3.32 W), Junior (4.2 W)
Obviously, I had a ridiculous turnaround from mostly Bs and C's to straight A's in all honors.</li>
<li>All honors and AP classes since Freshman Year.</li>
<li>Hockey For 4 Years, Varsity for 2, Cross Country 2 Year, Hockey, Wrestling, Swim Camps overs summer</li>
<li>Additional 1 Year of Club Hockey Freshman Year</li>
<li>Numerous Community Service w/ Food Drives</li>
<li>Part time work all summer about 30 Hours a week</li>
<li>Choir Section Leader</li>
<li>A handful of scholastic awards from national language exams, hockey leagues</li>
<li>Schools applying to for scholarship are Purdue, Boston University, UIUC, Lafayette College, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin Madison</li>
<li>Estimating close to if not perfect on fitness exam</li>
<li>Military in family, grandfather won silver star, personal interest</li>
<li>Hispanic, caucasian male, attending top ranked public school in state of Illinois</li>
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<p>Those are the main talking points you could say. I would really appreciate any people with insight on this topic to let me know, as it is very important to me. Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>bump please!</p>

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<p>I am also switching my list of schools to Boston University, Purdue, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Lafayette, and University of Maryland.</p>

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<p>Pretty good, but I would get my GPA up if I were you.</p>

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<p>Your UW GPA is on the lower end for being competitive. Your ACT is great. </p>

<p>More leadership would be good.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say even on the lower end for being competitive…its flat out not competitive.</p>

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<p>You have a good chance. But, because of the budget cuts and sequestration, they are giving out fewer scholarships this year. You might be able to get a 3 year ROTC scholarship, which is still good.</p>

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<p>Is that true? I have heard mixed statements on how competitive it is. My GPA will certainly be up after first semester.</p>

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<p>I’d say with a little more leadership and a higher GPA you would have a good chance. However, like I said, that GPA is somewhat low. I read somewhere that the middle 50% of applicants generally have a 3.6-3.7 GPA (UW, I believe). That UW one will hurt you. </p>

<p>Who knows though, until you apply.</p>

<p>If you don’t receive a scholarship, do ROTC anyways. You could get a 2 or 3 year scholarship still.</p>

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<p>I’ve researched it a lot and i think the chances are slightLY higher to get a Army ROTC scholarship vs. Navy or Air focus so we have that going for us but you have to keep in mind how competitive the process is. My dad was is Navy ROTC at Purdue. he had a 3.90 GPA unweighed took all AP’S and honors was varsity track/ XC and got like a 1500 on his SAT’s (out of 1600) but still didn’t get the scholarship right away. he still got into Purdue and was part of ROTC and busted his butt and proved himself and got a 3 year scholarship. Keep you’re head up and keeping working hard but don’t be discouraged if you got get it</p>