<p>Schools LOVE seeing people serving in the military. For one it helps them mature, and more importantly it means they have the GI Bill to help pay for school. That being said, don’t go into the military solely to pay for school. You need a genuine desire to serve.</p>
<p>I do have a desire to serve, but I also want to go to university. Not sure which is better to do first though, …</p>
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<p>I’ve heard from a few people that if I wanted to do mechanical engineering, the military has awesome programs that I could get into for that if I enlisted. That isn’t the field I want to get into though. Do you have any information on Electrical Engineering/Physics programs in the military?</p>
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<p>Should I ask a recruiter? Or would a recruiter have a really biased opinion? I’ve been told by people that (some) recruiters will say whatever they can to get you to join the military ASAP…</p>
<p>For the most part recruiters will tell you what you want to hear. But if you score well on your ASVAB you can be placed into the area you prefer. For EE it would probably be Electronics Technician. A friend of mine was in that field and got to work everything from base level IT to making circuit boards at the Research Labs. In the AF your training will also count as college credit through the Community College of the Air Force.</p>
<p>UMass Lowell is actually a great school for engineering. Though it doesn’t have a great reputation overall, that is one program for which the school is respected. If you could get in there, you’d be near MIT and could perhaps take courses there in your spare time!</p>
<p>Wouldn’t UMass Amherst be a better school to get into than UMass Lowell? They are both relatively close to MIT, and I could definitely get into UMass Amherst.</p>
<p>I wont be getting into MIT, so how would be close to it affect me? I don’t think MIT would accept me as a transfer, as UMass Amherst isn’t a very, well, amazing school. MIT has an incredibly low transfer rate, along with a lot of other really good engineering schools like Caltech and Stanford.</p>
<p>I’m sure I could get into MIT for grad school though.</p>