<p>I want to major in engineering at NC State and am wondering if I am competive enough to make it into the most selective college at State?</p>
<p>OOS from Illinois
4.0 GPA
27 ACT-- 27 E 29 M R 27 S 25 (They dont super score correct? If so, I have a superscore of 28)
75 out of 542 (About top 14%)
Invloved in multiple sports and clubs. Currently hodling multiple leadership roles.
ROTC Applicant</p>
<p>A weakness- I only have a couple AP courses on my transcript. </p>
<p>I am pretty sure I could make it into a less selective college at State, but how about engineering?</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>Your stats sound good. You would prob. be very competitive for the College of Engineering.</p>
<p>Which branch of ROTC are you applying for? Is it one (AF or Navy) that pretty much requires engineering or hard sci. major?
MY S was in NROTC at NCSU. He commissioned in '09.</p>
<p>I am applying for NROTC Marine Option. From my understanding, the Marine Corps does not care about your degree like the Navy and Air Force.</p>
<p>You are right. For Marines, your major doesn’t matter. NCSU NROTC unit is a good one. Apply early. Good Luck to you.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Yeah, it has a relativly large Marine presence as well. </p>
<p>Not that I’m worried, just curious, but do you know any specifics regarding how often PT occurs and how much of a time commitment everything will be?</p>
<p>PT is twice a week at 6 a.m. if you are in good shape. If you can’t do the minimum reps/run time, you get put on remedial PT which means you have a extra PT per week. </p>
<p>Every semester, you have to take a ROTC class in addition to the classes required for your major. So if your major calls for 15 hrs/sem. you’ll have to add on your ROTC class and you’ll have 18 credit hrs. for the sem. I have heard that it sometimes takes Engineering majors an extra sem to graduate with the extra load.</p>
<p>I think I remember S having to do some lab type stuff …drilling, marching, guest speakers coming in to speak to the unit,etc. early on. That’s a no credit thing, just something you have to do. That might be just a freshman thing.</p>
<p>The unit sells t-shirts to raise funds at football games. Each person has to sign up for two games. They might have changed but did it the whole time S was there.</p>
<p>There was a mandatory study hall (8 hrs/week) for the first sem. of freshman yr. If you made a gpa of 3.0 or better, you didn’t have to do it anymore. Don’t know if Marines were included in that or just Navy. </p>
<p>I know it sounds like a lot but S did it all plus a part-time job (not freshman yr. but all the rest) and still managed to have plenty of fun. ROTC didn’t usually require anything on weekends except for taking a turn selling t-shirts at the football games and a few PT sort of competitions maybe a couple of times/sem. </p>
<p>The best thing you can do to prepare to to get in really good shape (running, sit-ups, push-ups) during your sr. year of h.s.</p>