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Congratulations to and thanks for his service to your son. I suspect your experience is falling on deaf ears with dbate, but your experience going through the ROTC process as a parent are valued here by those who are going through the process you have been through.</p>
<p>Next Air Force ROTC board will convene 25 January 2010 through 29 January 2010. Board results will be released no later than 2 weeks afterwards.</p>
<p>The above information was contained in my daughter’s official AFROTC “deferred” letter that arrived today. Good Luck to everyone who is waiting and Happy New Year!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info aglages. We have not received letter yet, but January is sooner than I expected. I thought it was Feb. No response yet from AF ROTC to my question on past statistics.</p>
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No offense, but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a response from AFROTC concerning stats. We may have to just wait and hope for the best.</p>
<p>I know the monthly stipend increases for each year you are on ROTC scholarship, but are there differences between the branches? For instance does the Army offer $300 a month to freshmen while the Navy and AF gives $250? I can’t decide whether I’m reading outdated web sites or actual differences.</p>
<p>Somewhat related: Is there a difference between book allowances between branches for ROTC scholarship recipients?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>S1 graduated (NROTC) last May.
I think he got $300,$350,$400,$450. I could be wrong though. My memory is a little foggy :)</p>
<p>His book stipend was $375 per semester. Most of the time he didn’t spend all of the book stipend. After a few semesters, he became pretty adept at figuring at which classes he really needed books for and which ones buying the book would be a waste of money.</p>
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Thanks PackMom! I thought that they would all be the same but you never know. It seems as though the military may have raised the book allowances to $900 per year. I would think that between selling your used books and only buying new what cannot be purchased used, you should be able to get by with less than $1000 in book costs.</p>
<p>One of goaliegirl’s school’s has book rental included in the tuition. It basically covers all hardback and most paperback books, except disposable workbooks that are to be written in (lab manuals, etc.). So there are some book expenses, but minimal at this school. Does the Army deposits the book allowance in the bursar’s account once per term and any left over monies are rolled into the next term (or refunded at the end of the school year)? Or does the Army reimburse for expenditures with receipts only to the extent that books are purchased/rented for money?</p>
<p>I googled around and found several AROTC programs offering the $900/year amount and several offering $1,200 per year (example Idaho State, Iowa State, Bucknell, Colorado State and Stanford). The interesting thing is that the book allowance for AROTC seems to be either $900 or $1200, nothing else.</p>
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Exactly my issue Mariner116. I can’t decide whether I’m looking at outdated websites, or whether there is a difference between colleges and branches. Same with the stipends.</p>
<p>Can only speak to S’s experience/school but at his school (NC State Univ.), all ROTC funding, including book stipend I believe, went straight into S’s account in the Cashier’s office. After all tution and fees were paid out, any remaining dollars (book stipend) were then forwarded directly to S’s checking account. These funds were not always present at the very beginning of the semester so be prepared to sometimes have to pay for your own books and be reimbursed when the $$ came into the account.</p>
<p>S1 had university merit scholarships in addition to ROTC. Those were handled in the same way. Funds went into his NCSU cashiers account and the unused funds were forwarded to his checking acct.</p>
<p>Thanks PackMom. I would have suspected as much, but it is better to know.</p>
<p>With regards to the stipend, I would take it that they issue a check/direct deposit to a bank account, as it is supposed to be for “other living expenses” as opposed to university expenses.</p>
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Did NC State allow him to use this “university merit scholarship” money for room & board, or did he need to apply it only to tuition? I’ve heard of some (most?) colleges that will not allow merit scholarship money to be used for R&B if your tuition is being covered by ROTC.</p>
<p>goaliedad, yes, the stipend went directly to his checking acct. monthly.</p>
<p>aglages, yes, he was allowed to use the merit money for R&B. One of his merit awards was a departmental scholarship. On the dept. webpage, the scholarship info. said something to the effect of being used toward tuition so I called the department and told the prof. in charge that S would have an ROTC scholie paying tutition (basically trying to figure out if there was even any point in S applying for the dept. scholie). The prof. was very laid back about the whole thing and said “Sure, he can use it. We like our kids to be able to eat!”
S1 also had a general univ. merit award which combined with the departmental scholarship covered his room and board (even after he moved off campus). </p>
<p>All the scholarship money went to his account in the cashier’s office and they paid all his costs out of it. It was as if they just looked at the bottom line of total amt. in his acct. versus total amt. owed with no real regard to source of the money.</p>
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That is terrific PackMom! My daughter has merit scholarships at all her top choices. It would be great if we could use some of that money for R&B. While we were definitely going to ask, it is reassuring to know at least SOME schools are willing to apply merit money to R&B. Thanks for the info…</p>
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<p>Does it ever happen that there’s a delay in tuition payment from the Army/Navy/AF and the student’s family has to cough up tuition then get reimbursed?</p>
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I have read that it is fairly common at the beginning of the school year (FALL), however as long as the college is aware that your son / daughter is receiving a ROTC scholarship they will wait a month or six weeks for the payment.</p>
<p>see posting below</p>
<p>My youngest son graduated and was commissioned from the ROTC program at Loyola College in MD in 2008. He was awarded a 3-yr scholarship out of high school at $20K/year plus his room was provided by the college for all 4 years. Luckily in Dec. of his soph. year, he was told by his CO that they had “extra money” and would pay his FULL tuition for the remaining 3 years! Great Christmas present for us!!
He was commissioned upon graduation (awesome ceremony–invite the whole family!) and ended up traveling all across the country doing his various training-from CT to WA,OK,TX and finally to NC and he’s now stationed with the 82nd Airborne at Ft Bragg.Right now he’s serving in Afghanistan for a 12month deployment as a medical officer. He’s looking at it as his “study abroad”!!</p>
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Great attitude! Congrats to you both.</p>