<p>Would it be a really bad decision to put History down for my selected major on my NROTC scholarship (Marine Option) application. I know that it is reccomended to have a technical major, but not required. Does anyone know of someone who put down history as their major and still got a Marine Option scholarship? Thank you in advance for the help.</p>
<p>Hey Marine4Life,</p>
<p>If you feel strongly enough that you know history is going to be your major, put it down. Fact is, many Marine officers are history majors and someone put a statistic out there that the most long-serving officers in the Navy and Marine Corps have been history majors. If you have everything else in place and your chances of getting accepted to the ROTC unit and the scholarship are good, I would not hesitate to put history down.</p>
<p>USMC does not care what your major is. It's the USN that wants/needs technical majors. Plus, if you want to be a history major, that's what you should put down because it's the truth.</p>
<p>besides, isn't one of the points of ROTC to allow you to pursue whatever academic interests you want while still pursuing a career in the military?</p>
<p>USNA1985 is right, the Marines could care less. Physical fitness and bearing are much more important to them.</p>
<p>We just had our majors brief and they told us that the Navy wants us to have over 70% I think technical majors but the USMC doesn't care. They also told us for some reason that there are many lifers thathad history majors out of USNA. And they said that our class put down more technical majors than any other class. I think it's because we all knew that they wanted us to put that. Everyone will tell you not too, but people do it anyway to give themselves a leg up. WSe were told by the AcDean that for other classes they would be looking at what people put down as their major choices. It's up to you to be honest though.</p>
<p>If I remember right, I put either English or History for my major for navy option, and i got accepted, so if everything else is in order, you should be good</p>
<p>Many in S's NROTC battalion changed their majors after the first or second semester of freshman year. They were doing poorly in engineering courses and were encouraged by their NROTC advisors to change majors rather than flunk out.
S also changed his major from what was on his NROTC app. He did the app. very early (June, before senior yr.). It wasn't a case of dishonesty. He really wasn't set on the major he listed on the app. but had to chose something. He simply changed his mind about his academic interests by the middle of senior year. He went from a technical major to a non-technical one.</p>
<p>As the others say, your major really does not matter. In fact, at my unit, only one of our marine options is a technical major.</p>