<p>Our son just told us tonight that he has ruled out one of the schools (he must decide by Friday) because while at an ROTC recruiting event at one of the schools, some of the kids had negative things to say about another school. Maybe they're right, or perhaps they're just typical kids feeling loyalty to their own school/program. Anyone have any experience here?
The one he has decided against would probably be a good fit otherwise but he has been swayed by the conversation at the event.</p>
<p>We are concerned about the program, to be sure. I guess the thing is, we have been able to check into that fairly easily but the ROTC has been a different matter. I think we’re going to go by things like Ranger Challenge results. Besides speaking with the military science personnel at each school, that seems to be our best bet. </p>
<p>You might ask about how the cadets perform at the summer camp they attend. It may be the ranger challenge you are referring to, but ROTC cadets compete at the summer program they attend.</p>
<p>I would recommend that you go down and talk to the Military Science staff at various colleges. I’m from ISU and I like the ROTC program there because it’s geared up towards the LDAC(Leaders Assement Course) which is really important because that and your academics will determine which branch you end up in. So i’ll say that academics are just as important as the ROTC courses. You’ll probably wanna check out the LDAC results and how previous cadets have done.</p>
<p>Also see if you can talk to some of the cadets there also, beacause for some schools like Western Illinois, they have alot of cadets in their ROTC program and do all the “fun stuff” like repelling (as qouted from a cadet there) in the first 2 years to get people to join. While at ISU we do more stuff like land nav etc…</p>