College After the Military

Applying to College
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I’m curious on how colleges view military service for applicants who have been out of high school for quite some time. I didn’t have the best grades while I was in (2.0 GPA and 1190 SATs…lazy and immature pretty much) but after some time in the army and a few deployments, I’ve done a 180.

I’m almost 23 and will be getting back from the Sandbox this fall sometime. Should be getting out early next year. I plan on applying to some state schools and hope to apply for a transfer to Stanford. If anyone who’s been there, done that or has advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to PM or email me.

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<p>Start out at a community college for a couple of semesters, then you can transfer to a nice state school and maybe Stanford. Also look into the Air National Guard, as in some states it covers 100% of state school tuition, plus you can still collect your GI Bill. The GI Bill bought all my beer through out college. :)</p>

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<p>many colleges have a veterans advisor. They are more common at state schools because privates just don't have that many people enrolled these days who have ever been in the military. For example, <a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/Veterans.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/Veterans.htm&lt;/a> UT Texas has a veterans advisor see <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/directory/offices/vz.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.utexas.edu/directory/offices/vz.html&lt;/a> A search with google can help you find many others.</p>

<p>Contact some of these and get their advice. They are more likely to have seen and helped people in your situation than most of us people here on CC.</p>