<p>Do most of the UCs offer ROTC for a chance for full ride? I’ve been for the past week trying to find a school with a great engineering (biomed or chem) program with a chill background and a lot of activities in the areas. I am assuming UCs have that lol.</p>
<p>UCLA and Cal both have ROTC. I think all of the UCs have ROTC.</p>
<p>I say awesome blossom to that…ch33rs~!</p>
<p>Dude, Lawrenceville is hardly the middle of nowhere, it’s an Atlanta suburb in a fairly wealthy county.</p>
<p>GA Tech is really quite good in your desired fields. Also check out Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U St Louis, UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and RPI. I’m not sure about the ROTC opportunities. I know, being an alum, that you can get a full ride through ROTC at MIT, and it’s probably worth it to apply, because you’re good enough to be considered, but you wouldn’t want to bank on being admitted.</p>
<p>That sounds good, SeaHwang. I have seen several people drop out of the academy because they came for the wrong reasons, and I wouldn’t want that to happen elsewhere if it can be avoided.
I don’t know about the Marine reserve’s deployment chances, but if you do ROTC you cannot be deployed while in college. It is virtually guaranteed that you would deploy after college as an officer.</p>
<p>Duke doesn’t have chemE, though its BME is very good.</p>
<p>I’d add Northwestern to UCBChem’s list.</p>
<p>If there’s one thing I can say about ROTC, it’s that everyone I know who has done their mandatory service afterward has found that their job opportunities are improved. Everyone loves an officer.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for the helpful and constructive responses. </p>
<p>UCLAri/Raimius: if I do join the ROTC, am I in the military for life and must I have to work as an officer. I was planning on finishing undergrad and either going to school for graduates or getting employeed by an engineering company afterwards. </p>
<p>Jessiehl: With how much importance does MIT look at SAT scores in comparison with EC, academics, recs, essay, etc? Would the ~2200 be enough for a school as prestigious as MIT or should I study another month for a potential 2400?</p>
<p>SeaHwang,</p>
<p>The service requirement differs from service to service, but here’s a rough rundown from what I remember…</p>
<p>Army: three years (four years for scholarship winners)
Or part time in some circumstances</p>
<p>Navy: I think Navy ROTC requires four years active, four years inactive.</p>
<p>Air Force: Don’t know.</p>
<p>Based on what the recruiter said, I was to be in the reserve for 4 years (once a week for every month) throughout my college years. He then said that I would be deployed as second lieutenant as active service, which really freaked me out because I thought 4 years in reserve were all that it was required.</p>
<p>One question, after talking with my counselor and researching some colleges. UCLA does not seem like a bad school AT ALL. It seems to have respected fields, but I hear it is a party school (43% Asian lol).</p>
<p>SeaHwang,</p>
<p>UCLA is ranked amongst the top 25 for undergrad, and the top 15 or so for grad. </p>
<p>As for its being a party school, that was never my experience. I found it to be much quieter than other UCs (UCSB, for example.)</p>
<p>After much research and reading, I came up with a solid list of colleges that I want to apply to in no particular order.</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>University of California: Los Angeles</li>
<li><p>University of Texas Austin</p></li>
<li><p>1 more based on what you guys think I need: reach, match, safety</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you guys so much for the help! :D</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, cause it’s the same app as UCLA and has a better reputation for engineering.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply, UCB. I checked collegeboard.com and UCB requires around 30k tuition plus 14k for board (OOS). It seems a little too costly.</p>
<p>^ Ouch…yeah, pricing is not gonna beat Georgia Tech. I like your list. Good luck.</p>
<p>Actually, it’s $20K for nonresident fees.</p>
<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/ugbudget07-08.html[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/ugbudget07-08.html</a></p>
<p>Do you guys think the list is not balanced? Do I have so many safeties, matches, or reaches that I need to slightly adjust it?</p>
<p>PS What is, in your opinion, the perfect 9th college for my list?</p>
<p>Berkeley, I think…</p>
<p>UCLAri,</p>
<p>actually, the “tuition” should really include the $8,384 “fees” for comparison since many other schools don’t have that “fees”. that’s what the collegeboard.com did.</p>
<p>SeaHwang,</p>
<p>In case you are not aware, UCLA has no BME at the undergrad level. Their BME is a graduate department.</p>
<p>I’d suggest JHU for your 9th school. It has a decent chemE and a top-ranked BME. Some people have strong opinion about its social life though; so that may be something you want to investigate.</p>