Recent content by collegesomeday

Thanks for thinking I'm excellent, ERAUMattom! Congratulations to your son for doing his sport so well. He's certainly at a good school for AFROTC! I know I don't stand out on a national level... heck, I don't even have any state awards. Am I up against lots of national award winners for the...

Jcc123 thanks for the story! Glad to hear that your son still got the scholarship even without sports. However, I am a little curious about what you mean about taking a hard look at my current resume and thinking about whether or not I have what it takes to be in the military.

Okay, thanks kinnem! Does your DS like USoC? Does he have a lot of time to pursue activities other than ROTC and class? How hard was it to do NROTC MO as a college programmer? I've always been interested in the school, even before I knew about NROTC.

I'm not using that as an excuse for why I didn't get the scholarship. I'm saying that my true sat scores should be higher.

http://www.fairtest.org/fairtest-press-release-national-merit-scholarship-2013 qualifying scores are done by state, as seen here. I've taken every possible ap at my school except for one, plus self-study for one. I've taken more than anyone else at my school and am the only person with a 4.0.

In a scenario in which I don't receive a 4-year scholarship, how difficult is it to receive a 3 or 2 year one? If I showed up to every training and consistently performed well on my physical fitness tests and did well in class would I get the scholarship? Does it depend on the school?

And thank you for that story, kinnem. It's nice to know that if things don't work out with this scholarship I will still have great options that will eventually allow me to join the Navy as an officer free of college debt.

I was talking about what I would put on an NROTC application. I'm taking four APs this year, one I'm self-studying for, I took one last year, and I will take four more senior year. I was one point away from NMSF, my state is the single hardest to get the award in. I was also sick when I took...

My high school has a very strong history of getting kids into UVA... someone got in last year with a 1910 and with far lesser ECs than me. That's also why UCLA is first on the list... they're desperate for OOS money, unlike UVA. I'm planning on doing a Tier 2 major, probably statistics, so I'm...

My hook? Well, I think my academic statistics are really solid. I'll have been president/founder of one club for three years and president of two others for two years by the time I'm a senior. My clubs aren't joke clubs either, like art or multicultural or whatever... they obviously show...

Thanks Pima, that's encouraging to hear! My school list is UCLA, UVA, South Carolina, Yale, and UPenn (these last two I probably won't get into which is why they're at the bottom... should still be able to transfer the scholarship there). I'm out of state for UCLA and UVA and South Carolina...

As I've said before, school sports/varsity athletics simply will not work for me, except for perhaps cross country next year because they're willing to work with my difficult schedule. My experience as a newspaper editor and debate team captain has given me far more leadership training (you try...

My parents offered to let me take martial arts lessons (my sister already takes them at the same time so this is one of the only options for athletics on the table). However, I would simply be a high-level white belt by June, when I plan on submitting my application. Will this help me at all...

I took a look at the interview sheet that the interviewers use to grade applicants and it seems that they're really understanding about part-time jobs and the inability to get rides home from extracurriculars there. There is a lot of physical fitness stuff on the sheet and I think that my...

Isn't the point of rotc to train you to be a platoon leader or something? And from what I know most people who do nrotc don't end up as platoon leaders...