<p>If my son had a ROTC scholarship at a civlian school for one year, and now transfers to USMA, what happens with the tuition paid for the last year? Does he have to pay the Army back?</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as your son, but I'm still waiting on my appointment to USNA. With the NROTC scholarship, if you drop out/quit/transfer to an academy before your junior year, you owe nothing back. I don't know if the Army scholarship works the same, but I'm not committed until the first day of class of my 2/C year.</p>
<p>If you have a 4 year ROTC scholarship and are in your first year, you are considered an MS-I cadet. Your second year you are an MS-II and so forth. There is no commitment, military or financial, until the first day of classes your MS-II year. A cadet can transfer wherever he wants after his first year. Once the first day of MS-II year cadets who wish to transfer to a civilian college will have to pay back the Army either financially or with military time. But transfering to service academies is allowed but do not leave your PMS in the dark. Your PMS could be very helpful. I have seen 2 year scholarship ROTC cadets resign their commission to attend a service academy.</p>
<p>yeah, you can leave after one year for any reason. (don't like the army, etc.) but you can pretty much always get permission to "do something else military" : switch services, go to an academy, enlist.</p>
<p>i've heard of air force people going army rotc easily, but not the other way around.</p>
<p>air force has too many people. they are letting people leave after four years without repaying the money. they are also not granting waivers and kicking people out. however, army rotc is handing out scholarships to anyone who can speak moderatly good english. high school GPA of 2.8? smoke a lot of weed? as long as you stop- here's a scholarship.</p>
<p>uh...yeah...I'm pretty sure USMA is no different.</p>
<p>I went to HS with a guy who was kicked out of our middle school for drugs, went to a military school for a few years, and came back sophomore year. He still does/did drugs through high school...hardly made grades....and he's currently a plebe at USMA.</p>
<p>ROTC is no 'slacker's route to a commission' for those who couldn't/didn't get an appointment. It has it's own unique challenges. You're both going to get the same commission, and someday you'll be serving alongside, and most likely under an ROTC grad...so show some respect.</p>
<p><==ROTC Midshipman, and USNA candidate (2nd time)</p>
<p>"uh...yeah...I'm pretty sure USMA is no different."</p>
<p>DMeix: Do you really think that USMA appointments are given out to "anyone who can speak moderately good english. high school GPA of 2.8? smoke a lot of weed? as long as you stop- here's a scholarship [appointment]? </p>
<p>Notwithstanding your anecdotal evidence, that comment just doesn't gel with my experience or the USMA admissions stats.</p>
<p>Not exactly correct about Army ROTC either. Does this kind of bad info get distributed through xbox 360 or something of the kind?</p>
<p>Ann-
No, I was not saying that USMA just hands out appointments to whoever. 8IzEnuff's comment seemed to imply that the best go to the academy, while the slackers, addicts, and unintelligent go ROTC, when in reality, they both have excellent mids/cadets spotted with a few bad eggs.</p>