Solon,
keep reading here in the old threads-there are a lot of great posts on the topic of school selection and how it may weigh into your AROTC chances. The thread January 4, 2011 board has some in the later pages about college choice. Also, look for links in old threads to PFT(Presidential Fitness Test) scoring and how it will impact your application. Just to clarify, do you have a varsity letter in XCountry? This is important to look into, also team captain carries a lot of weight in the process. Glad you are so far doing everything right by identifing schools and meeting the ROTC cadres at each school. Hopefully other who are board "experts" will be along to put in their 2 cents soon