Does State of Residence Matter?

Is the state of residence a consideration when evaluating whether a candidate will receive a scholarship? In other words, is there a certain amount of scholarships designated for each state?

Each NROTC can have a certain # of slots available depending upon accession goals. However, the boards are at a national level. It's not like the service academy process where US Senators and Reps have a certain # of openings per state.

Someone from another state can very well get NROTC slots out of state.

I would imagine the only possible benefit from being "in state" is actually after selection and when being actually assigned a school. Selection and school assignments are two separate parts in the process. Again, that really depends on whether or not your "state" school is the first one on the list -- and really that may be a wash since NSTC tries to give out first choices until gone.

I was thinking more along the lines of the award-winners per state, not where they choose to attend college. So will candidates from states with few applicants have a higher chance of earning a scholarship than the states with hundreds of applicants?

rotcmom2015 said:

I was thinking more along the lines of the award-winners per state, not where they choose to attend college. So will candidates from states with few applicants have a higher chance of earning a scholarship than the states with hundreds of applicants?

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Not entirely sure if it's on the Navy side. From the Marine Option side, they do divide the Marine Recruiting areas into districts and I believe the districts have x number of "slots".

All in all, however, I don't think states with a fewer # of applicants have any greater chances. It's really based on how competitive the individual applicant is against peers. Again, it's more national than state driven.