<p>I am planning to apply for a NROTC full ride scholarship (Marine Option) and my first choice will be Vanderbilt. What happens if I apply Early Decision to Vanderbilt and am accepted, but my NROTC scholarship assigns me to my second or third choice? Will being accepted Early decision and the fact that I live 20 miles from Vandy convince the selection board to transfer my scholarship to Vandy? Or will i be stuck paying for Vandy myself because I'm commited to enrolling at Vandy? Thank you in advance for the help.</p>
<p>If you apply ED to Vanderbilt and are accepted, you will have a contractual obligation to enroll in Vanderbilt and pay all tuition and fees.</p>
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<p>I would not recommend that you apply ED to any university if you are dependent upon NROTC to pay the freight; unless you like shooting craps.</p>
<p>If you aren’t assigned to Vanderbilt, and it was your first choice, then you probably wont be able to transfer your scholarship there. If they don’t give you your first choice, then you probably weren’t competitive enough to get one of the spots at that school. You can get put on the waiting list, or enroll in the college program(no scholarship), and your unit will trying to help you pick up a scholarship after a semester. If you are a decent Mid, you shouldn’t have a problem picking up the scholarship.</p>
<p>Okay, what about if I am awarded a full ride scholarship to Vanderbilt from the first decision board and accept the offer within the required 30 days. But when April comes around I am rejected from Vanderbilt?</p>
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<p>Based on this scenario, you would need to submit a request to NSTC to have your scholarship transferred to another university. The required justification would be your rejection letter from Vanderbilt and an acceptance letter from the university to which you want the scholarship transferred.</p>
<p>We had a somewhat similar situation with my son, three years back - here is our experience, but be warned that 1) rules and facts may have changed, 2) supply & demand balances shift every year, and 3) my memory may be faulty.</p>
<p>S applied to a number of colleges with NROTC programs - one in the Boston consortium, a few mis-size universities in the south (including Vandy), a large-ish state school (another state) with a big NROTC contingent, and also two of the Academies (Navy, AFA). A complex process with a lot of moving parts.</p>
<p>He was notified of the award NROTC scholarship early on, and tagged the school in Boston as his 1st choice. He was also admitted to the State school in another state way early in their rolling admissions process. So he called the unit recruiting officer for the NROTC consortium in Boston, and was advised that because of the highly selective nature of the schools they supported, they usually had lots of slots - often went empty - and that the slots were harder to come back at the bigger state schools. So he named the not-our-state school as his number 1 on the NROTC application. </p>
<p>As the process unfolded, he ended with multiple complex choices - appointed to Navy and AFA, accepted at four different schools with NROTC, and a few other colleges with no NROTC available. In the end he elected to decline the Naval Academy appointment (DD is still recovering), and was able to switch the NROTC Scholarship to the southern school he is now attending. He ended up going Marine option, and completed OCS this summer. </p>
<p>Switching the NROTC scholarship was not straight forward but worked out for him that year. Key was getting on the phone and calling the officers in the respective units for advice on how to best map preferences against the NROTC process. But a caution - things may have changed, and the supply-demand dynamics may be different this year.</p>
<p>Well I am “shooting craps” at the moment. I applied ED1 to GWU and it’s looking like I’m probably going to get it. I’m hoping that the selection board that met today will be reviewing my app so that I can know by beginning of December. GWU will respond by December 15. Now, here is the risky game that I am playing. If I get accepted into GWU but don’t get picked up for the scholarship there, I can appeal based on financial needs and there is a chance that I may be able to get out of the binding ED agreement. Granted, I’m still a nervous mess because this little game of craps has some big numbers involved…but I think that the odds are stacked in my favor so to speak. It helps that I’ve got three career military officers (navy, army, and airforce) all of them combat vets and one (navy) still active and deployed at the moment. If everything goes to hell in a hand basket, I’m hoping that I’ll have enough pull to fast talk my way out of it…</p>
<p>still…a risky game</p>
<p>EDIT: I might add that I signed the ED1 agreement form from <a href=“http://www.commonapp.org%5B/url%5D”>www.commonapp.org</a>, there is a clause in this contract that is not in the contract from the gwu.edu site that specifically states “this commitment is binding only if sufficient financial aid is offered”</p>
<p>sufficient financial aid, exactly what amount is considered sufficient is anyone’s guess but then again, that’s also the beauty of it because I can claim that I was not offered sufficient financial aid if it ever came down to that</p>
<p>^^^ could get into a whole ethical debate on the merrits of opting for ED and withdrawing after an offer is made based on financial package----(even though I know it happens)… and you are correct in that the premise behind ED is that it is binding!</p>
<p>will let it rest at agreeing you are playing a risky game, and not one I would recommend to others! </p>
<p>Having said that, best of luck!</p>
<p>ethical…was wonderin when someone would bring it up…I agree with you on it though</p>
<p>btw what position you play for navy lax? I’m a middie for my school’s varsity team</p>
<p>^^^^LOL!!! nah, i couldn’t run down that field if my life depended on it! Our son is a middie however!</p>