<p>Through the Army's (the branch I am interested in) website, there is a national scholarship for ROTC. This includes a 4 year scholarship to the college of your choice, provided you get in. I am interested in the Army but not sure if I am definitly going into the Army. If I were to get the scholarship, could I choose between the ROTC scholarship and a financial aid package? Does receiving an ROTC scholarship void me of receiving financial aid offers? Would applying for a college with the ROTC national scholarship be something that one declares on their application that would void any financial aid?</p>
<p>Also, a question pertaining to ROTC- if a college does not have ROTC at their campus, then would one have to go to another campus like 3 times per week for physical training, or would that be held on a campus even if the college itself does not offer ROTC on its campus? I see this as a difficulty in attending a top university that offers ROTC on another campus. </p>
<p>Thanks for reading this rambling. I clearly have a lot of questions.</p>
<p>1) You can use other scholarship money (institutional and Governmental) with a ROTC scholarship, not to exceed the cost of attendance. That being said, most colleges will decrease your need-based and merit money (unless it is awarded to all candidates achieving a certain level like National Merit Scholarship recipients) to offset the ROTC scholarship, should you choose to use it. </p>
<p>2) You can choose between the school offer and the ROTC by declining the ROTC scholarship or moving it to a school you do not want to attend. However, it is unlikely that the school’s offer will be anywhere near the full-tuition + stipend offered by Army ROTC.</p>
<p>3) AROTC status does not go onto your application. In fact many ROTC scholarships aren’t awarded until after school-based offers go out. When the scholarship is accepted, the FA office is notified and their offer may be adjusted at that time.</p>
<p>As to the off-campus ROTC situations…</p>
<p>You will have to contact the PMS at any school to find out the specific ways they handle PT. I suspect that you will be commuting to the other school several times a week.</p>
<p>You have to choose a schools that either have an ROTC program on it’s campus or are cross town affiliate with a nearby college that has ROTC. If you go to a sch. w/out a program, it is your reponsibility to get to the host campus for classes,labs and PT.
Depending on the distance between the two campuses, it could get complicated.</p>
<p>If you look on the ROTC website, you’ll find a list of colleges that have AROTC programs and their cross-town affiliate schs. </p>
<p>In addition to NROTC scholarship, S got two merit scholarships from his sch. He was able to keep all three scholarships.</p>
<p>Yes, I know that your school needs it but a lot of schools have ROTC but you must go to another campus. I mean if a school has ROTC through an affiliate school, then do you have to go to the other school for PT? (That could be horrible… think about 5-6 AM PT and having to travel before that)</p>
<p>If you go to an affiliate school, that means there is no ROTC on that campus. Affiliate just means that sch. has an agreement with a host school (that has ROTC) whereby they can participate in the program on the host school’s campus. </p>
<p>All of your ROTC activities including PT take place at the host school.</p>
<p>You have two options regarding a 4 year scholarship -
Accept it - then you have ONE year until you are fully committed. After your freshman year you may walk away without oweing anything to the Army.
Reject it - you may take ROTC classes for the first two years without any commitment.
To enroll in MS III and MS IV - you need to be contracted and agree to serve.</p>
<p>Cross town agreements - this all depends. There are many arrangements and some home ROTC units send instructors to cross town schools so the Cadets don’t have to travel each week. This is usually for the MS I and MS II classes. You would then travel to the affiliate for labs and do FX together a few times a year. Many times PT is also done at your home school.
Check with the Home Battalion.</p>