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I'm telling you...time DOES fly! DS is entering his FINAL semester and is Battalion Commander. It has been an unbelievably long road in some respects (DS was a college programmer for 2 years when scholarship funding was nearly non-existent), but I am amazed and humbled by the man my son has...

The options given to DS were... NROTC Scholarship-go to college, get good grades, try to get college level leadership experience, do NOT join the unit as it disqualifies the applicant from NROTC Scholarship program. USNA-go to college, JOIN the unit and do anything and everything possible...

For those who have recently received 'bad' news, I just want to offer some encouragement. To make a very long story short, DS was in this spot 4 years ago. It's been a challenge, to say the least, to try to figure out ANYTHING in this process. This message board is a great source of...

Completely ridiculous!:mad:

Pima, I am going to have to defer to others on this board who know more about this process. DS was a college programmer, so this is the first and only cruise he will experience. I believe that one cruise (Sr. Cruise) is required to commission. Those who DOR'd were sent to a ship...

DS has been at Coronado for SEAL cruise. We are picking him up at the airport on Friday. To say this has been tough is an understatement. The session started with 42 and half DOR'd by the end of the first week. The USNA guys all left last Sunday, leaving 9 NROTC mids for the last week. DS...

DS leaves for SEAL cruise on Saturday. Excited and nervous. This is his first experience with summer training at all because he was a college programmer. Kat

Yay! SEAL cruise came through! Now we are just waiting to hear what phase... Kat

Waiting to hear on a SEAL cruise here...beginning Finals Week, so it would be nice to know SOON so summer job plans could be hammered out. Kat

I'm not the OP, but I am the one who brought up the idea of diversity a few posts back. I want to be clear on this...that statement came from the NROTC recruiter. We were obviously disappointed and discouraged after a long wait and a TWE from USNA a few days before. The recruiter called US...

I find this SO interesting because what the NROTC recruiter told us after DS was not awarded a scholarship was that he hadn't selected colleges that would provide for the diversity the Navy is trying to achieve. DS applied to colleges in the West, including the U of I which is only a couple of...

Having been in your spot myself, I know the joy you are feeling! Congratulations! Kat

kinnem, This is particularly frustrating when you have a college programmer working his tail off trying to get a scholarship! I hope you get to change your tag soon too! :) Kat

This is not at all related to your scholarship application, but making a good impression on the Command is always a good idea. Kat

What an amazing post! I'm with breadcrumbs...hand me a tissue! Congratulations to all of you! Kat