Navy ROTC

<p>So when you qualify for 4 year scholarship, is it for a specific school or 4 year to any accredited university?</p>

<p>specific UNIT, which will include (usually) one to four schools in the same city/area. Look at the colleges list online....please!</p>

<p>oiixxg: Great point! I didn't even think of the fact that many of the scholarships can go unused. So Green09, go for it aggressively and good luck!</p>

<p>~Make sure you do the NROTC application soon. My son was told that the slots at the NROTC units in the IVY's and selective schools don't always get filled. Getting both the Navy scholarship and getting in to the school is difficult for so many so some spots stay open. In my son's unit there are one or two not on scholarship this year. The unit works hard to change that and as we understand it is allowed to offer one scholarship each year also. One of my son's friends is working on that right now. Costs at the Ivy's are high and your $125 every other week stipend will not come close to covering the additional costs. Room and board is over 12 thousand dollars and there are many other expenses. Some schools provide free room and board to their ROTC students and some allow other scholarship monies to be utilized for this purpose but not in our case. It is a great program and the until becomes extended family but don't be surprised to find it much more intense than you expect. We know several across the country in a variety of units and it is a much different experience than we expected at least! But that said it has been a great one for our son. Best wishes and feel free to email me if you have other questions I can answer! JM</p>

<p>PS We were told at orientation this summer that there were about 900 scholarships awarded across the country in 2005. This was reduced a bit due to changing demands in the Navy. USNA also reduced it's class size in 2005 for the same reasons as we were told last spring. You will know about your scholarship before you know about the school in most cases but that application should be a top priority since many start them in their Junior year. Our son had his completed in August before his senior year and heard in October. The board meets monthly I believe but the hurricaines delayed it all last year.</p>

<p>Question - Say that you except an NROTC scholarship at a college and then Naps offers for you later on. How does that work exactly? Are you stuck?</p>

<p>Absolutely not. Accepting an NROTC scholarship when it is first extended is not binding. You can accept a scholarship and later, if offered NAPS, Foundation or appointment to the Academy, you just inform NROTC that you will not be exercising the scholarship. The scholarship may then be awarded to someone else -- which is why I say keep asking, right up to the end!</p>

<p>Thanks oiixxg. One of Jamz friends has gotten into the Citadel and may end up with a NROTC scholarship and her BGO called her over the weekend and said that NAPS popped up on her application to USNA. She came over all in a tizzy to ask me about taking the scholarship then ending up with NAPS. For the life of me, I couldn't recall even after I'd gone through Jamz' old files. I'll pass along the info to her and hope she gets the option!</p>

<p>Here in San Diego - in the early rounds of NROTC scholarships - if you apply and they offer you one of their 10 "ISD" - instant Scholarship decisions - it is a 'use it or lose it' offer right there on the spot.</p>

<p>Our daughter and her good friend both had apps with quite similar GPA/SAT/class rank scores in to USNA - and both went to NASS. Her friend decided to take the scholarship interview. Janell - who wanted to go to the Academy as her 1st choice - purposely did NOT interview for our NROTC, and instead went MROTC ( she wants to go Marine anyway) which is NOT binding. We knew the odds were pretty strong that had she interviewed, she too might have been offered an ISD ROTC and didn't want to be put in that position. </p>

<p>The bottom line....her friend was offered one of the ISD - so she took it, and effectively removed herself from the USNA pool. </p>

<p>Our daughter has her LOA and MROTC scholarship app still pending.</p>

<p>So different areas of the country do handle this differently.</p>

<p>How would you know if you are offered an ISD type of scholarship? My son received and accepted his NROTC scholarship to USD but it never said anything about being binding. As a matter of fact, on the form it said something about not being binding and it was advised that he accept it.</p>

<p>I just checked Jake's scholarship form and this is what is said:</p>

<p>"If you do not know if you should accept or decline a scholarship: your are not obligated in any way if you should accept; it is in your best interest to accept. "</p>

<p>The SD folk here were upfront in telling us they do things differently than most other units....so we knew where we stood at the beginning...and I bet our experience is not the common one the rest of you families are dealing with.</p>

<p>Hi~There were several on this thread last year that received ISD scholarships and they applied to USNA and other schools (NROTC) in some cases they obtained appointments and in others they did not but none of the scholarships were binding. My son accepted his NROTC scholarship in October of 2004 and hadn't even completed all of his college applications when he was notified of his acceptance. He was told to accept and decline later if he received an appointment, chose another school or decided he did not want to do NROTC. All NROTC scholarships become null and void if you receive an appointment and show up on I day. So if for some reason you change your mind once down there or have a problem once arriving your scholarship is no longer active. I do not know what happens if you are turned down for medical reasons though. By all means accept the scholarship if offered and worry about the rest later. There is a lot of reshuffling once appointments arrive and students find out that they did or did not get into their first choice school. My son had to choose between two great NROTC schools. He got his first choice but the financial package was better at the second choice school as they allowed him to put scholarship money they awarded him towards room and board. Both were wonderful schools. He ultimately decided on his first choice school but we were told it would not be difficult to switch the scholarship at the "tough to get into schools" as the units frequently do not fill up. We were told that George Washington is the most popular school to apply to with NROTC so for those looking at the DC area don't plan on being able to swicth to that school. What we were told anyway! JM</p>

<p>My son contacted his CGO and she emailed him back and said that accepting an ROTC scholarship is not something that USNA reviews. It
will not hurt his chances of getting accepted to USNA. So, at least that issue is over!</p>

<p>I just got the call from my Marine Corps recruiter, and I found out I got the NROTC-Marine Corps scholarship! Harvard early action decisions come out next week...I'll probably get deferred anyway, but I'm still a little anxious. But at least now I know that if I go there I'm on ROTC scholarship through the MIT unit. </p>

<p>USNA still top choice...but now I have more options...aahhh this just makes it all tougher to decide!</p>

<p>boston,</p>

<p>navgirl had the same dilemma last year. You should take a look at her posts. She is at Harvard right now in the NROTC program.</p>

<p>And, congratulations!</p>

<p>boston usmc- congratulations. Options are great to have... better than none!</p>

<p>Our daughter heard from her Marine Recruiter last evening that she was selected to the Marine Corps NROTC Scholarship on their early board. So Shawna aka boston_usmc, you and she continue to mirror each other! :-)</p>

<p>Saturday is her MOC interview....which is the last thing for her to get her Appointment.</p>

<p>So if everyone would continue to pray for my daughter, Janell that she would be making the right decisions that best suit her - this mom would sure be grateful.</p>

<p>peskemom, congratulations to your daughter. Which schools did she select with the Marine NROTC? This should make your christmas even more wonderful.</p>

<p>She has apps in to UCLA, UCSD and George Washington University. Her requirements were: Marine ROTC - Woman's Crew - Arabic Studies. Try finding THAT combination easily at colleges!</p>

<p>So we'll wait to see which schools accept her. Here in CA - they give the top 4% high school seniors something called "the local option" meaning they all but guarantee you acceptance to the nearest UC school....plus several other campuses.</p>