<p>I was just notified that I had recieved a 4 year ROTC scholarship at the University of Washington (i live in washington). THis is great-especially knowing that if the academies don't fall through I have a safety net. Has anyone else heard whether they have been accepted or not for ROTC? If so where? That would be fun to talk about. </p>
<p>Ryan</p>
<p>Hey, I also applied for the scholarship. When did you get your package all in by. I was told that my package was looked at last week, but won't be notified till January!!! Agh...However, I did get into Purdue (my second choice school for NROTC so....)</p>
<p>ISD to Harvard - IF I find out I get in tomorrow (EA).</p>
<p>Congratulations! You have been selected for a 4-yr Navy Option scholarship and assigned to the NROTC Unit at the University of North Carolina . </p>
<p>YEAH!</p>
<p>falconflyer22, congrats on your scholarship! You too rmoorenc! I have a friend in NROTC at UNC. He LOVES it there!</p>
<p>Hey I have a question, how do you apply for the NROTC (or AFROTC)??? I plan on going to UIUC, but the ROTC site doesnt say jack about how to apply. All it says is a bunch of stuff about how I'll be trained to be a leader and they'll help. Is it too late to apply to any of the ROTC now? If so, does anyone know if I can apply during the 2nd semester of my freshman year? thanks!</p>
<p>On the right side of the site is a selection called "fill out an application" <a href="https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/application/default.cfm%5B/url%5D">https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/application/default.cfm</a> start there. Also it states you have until Jan. 30th. 2005 Good Luck!</p>
<p>hey guys,
i'm new to this, i dont know how to use this site!!
but yea,
i want to be in NROTC when i go to college too. my dad was in the marines, but what i wish to pursue in my life the navy provides for me. my dad told me that if i join NROTC it'd give me a taste of what boot camp would be like, and a taste of how the real navy is. that it'd get me used to time management and other stuff you do in the navy. i'm not too confident in if i'll get any sports scholarhips, or a grand academic scholarship. what do you guys do to get scholarships?jw..
i researched the UIUC NROTC site and it said that if you joined that it'd help you pay for college and wen you graduate you join the navy and repay the school by serving.
Do you guys think i would come into the navy as an officer? because that was what i was hoping i'd be...</p>
<p>holy thread resurrection, batman!</p>
<p>do your reading before coming on here and asking the most basic questions...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nrotc.navy.mil%5B/url%5D">www.nrotc.navy.mil</a></p>
<p>and based on what I saw in another thread, I don't think your grades are good enough to get a scholarship. Apply for a scholarship, and when you dont get the scholarship, join NROTC anyways... anybody can, as long as you're going to college.</p>
<p>i've gone to that site. i did my reading. we already talked about this.</p>
<p>oh well. thanks for your post anyway.</p>
<p>dude, you asked if you would be an officer if you do NROTC.</p>
<p>Apply to the agriculture school at UIUC, by the way. It's way easier to get into than most of the other departments. It's the same with aviation, but that costs extra so don't do that unless you want to fly and can pay for it.</p>
<p>scroll down to the bottom of that page, and you can see what majors to definitely not apply to if you have any doubt you won't make it in. Also, apply as soon as possible... right after they make the applications available. They like to see that a lot.</p>
<p>thanks.
i dnno. for some reason i thought that i wouldnt. i know some marines that went to college and didnt come out as officers. and i just didnt wanna end up that way. but i dont know.
i cant seem to find what i want on that site tho. all it tells me ont he navy site is about sailors. and when i looked i couldnt find anything on my major, or anything in the medical field. if i did it was about nurses, and thats not what i want to be. maybe i'm not lookin in the right place.</p>
<p>Just because you have a college education does not mean that you will be an officer. If you go through and complete an ROTC program, you will almost certainly be an officer. This will be your easiest route.</p>
<p>Something that I have noticed about the military sites now is that they are all show and no go. This couldn't be illustrated any better than by the Marine Corps recruiting web site... you can not get ANY INFORMATION out of that thing. I guess they would rather just frustrate you into calling a recruiter. Use about.com to find information you can't find on the military recruiting web sites.</p>
<p><a href="http://usmilitary.about.com/od/officerjo2/a/menu.htm%5B/url%5D">http://usmilitary.about.com/od/officerjo2/a/menu.htm</a>
Those were Navy officer jobs.</p>
<p>And here are Marine Corps Officer jobs:
<a href="http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marinejoin/l/bloffjobs.htm%5B/url%5D">http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marinejoin/l/bloffjobs.htm</a></p>
<p>What do you want to do in the navy? The reason the Navy site was all about sailors is because if you go through NROTC, you most likely will become a sailor.</p>
<p>are u serious. i dont want to be a sailor. i wanna be a athletic trainer. its like Athletic training/sports medicine. that si the major i've done the research under. thats one of the majors. the other one is dermatology.
so if i do NROTC they're going to transform me into a sailor? but you said "most likely" so its not all the time. i hope.</p>
<p>I didn't know you could major in dermatology, but rather do that in med school. I'm guessing the major you want at Illinois is Kinesiology. In that case, I don't really think its that hard to transfer into Kinesiology from Ag.</p>
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so if i do NROTC they're going to transform me into a sailor?
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Transform as in you'll be swearing like a sailor and lining up outside the brothel at the port like a sailor? No, but most likely the job you will have when you graduate NROTC is one of those basic ones on this page:
<a href="https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/careeroptions.cfm%5B/url%5D">https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/careeroptions.cfm</a> and your chances of getting spec ops are really really small too, so basically either you'll be a Pilot/Navigator or a SurfaceWarface/Submariner.</p>
<p>What do you hope to get out of NROTC if you don't want to see the sea? That's the Navy's mission.</p>
<p>Wait you already got an offer? I thought first selection board was in August.
Do you mean for 2010 or 2011?</p>
<p>he resurrected the thread from 2004</p>
<p>yes, the navy's mission is the sea. but you dont neccessarily have to be a sailor. there's different jobs in the navy. liek you said, aviation and such.
and yea, i was talkin about kinsenology (sp) but yea thats what i wanted to do. that was called sports medicine. but yea.. i know some navy, i'm supposed to play soccer with them later in the month, so i'm going to ask them a few questions because not all of them are sailors. most of them work at the hospital doing something.</p>
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but you dont neccessarily have to be a sailor. there's different jobs in the navy. liek you said, aviation and such.
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<p>a pilot that flies off of and lives on a boat is still a sailor in my book.</p>
<p>nsmav,</p>
<p>If you don't want to be a sailor (or a naval officer) you really should consider another program. </p>
<p>The goal of both NROTC and the Naval Academy is to educate and train marine and navy combat leaders (officers). The government will expect you to be just that for a full five (5) years after you graduate.</p>
<p>Though you may take classes in college that concentrate on your goal to become a physical therapist / sports medicine practitioner, the odds are extremely slim that you would be assigned such duties in the Navy or Marines.</p>