Recent content by theagentofchaos

Hello everyone- thank you so much for the responses. I do come off an quite ignorant and ill-informed here, and I want to apologize for that. I don't mean to make excuses, because this certainly isn't something I wanted to run into at this stage, but for posterity's sake I should mention that...

Hello, all, I've been doing a bit of research in preparation for scheduling my freshman year of classes in the fall, but I'm running into a bit of trouble as I do so. At the MIT NROTC battalion where I am set to begin the program, the following list details the academic requirements of a Navy...

Hello, all! I wanted to write both to inform and thank everyone on this board; big ups to marciemi, basilrathbone and pima in particular, although countless others have been a huge help as I've navigated the process of application, interview, DODMERB and college admission. Tonight, I learned...

Thank you both for the replies- I'm going to read a bit more on this, and check my messages :)

Hello, everyone! Hope you are all having a nice winter. I'm very happy to report that I received notification from DODMERB this week, and I'm good to go! Qualified Unrestricted Line; no waivers required, childhood asthma be darned :shake: However, I'm running into a bit of an issue that I'm...

I'm really sorry to hear that, blacklab ): Please don't be discouraged! There's still so much time, and your son's stats sound amazing. I'm actually pretty sure that he beat me out in the SAT composite degree AND the major- if the Navy would drop an ISR on a Tier 3, I'm certain that they'll be...

I don't think so. Everything I heard and saw over the past couple of months seemed to indicate that the board met in September.

I'm really hoping so, Pima. Fingers crossed for admission at this point; I can only hope that having the scholarship mentioned helps. Also, some info I received today (there is a giant check sitting in the corner of my bedroom... the presentation was truly surreal :D) regarding this round of...

To be honest, I anticipated cuts across the board. With the meager numbers in Ivy ROTC programs, it hardly seemed a priority (particularly considering Navy's technical bent). I'm a bit blown away to have Navy willing to buck up for Harvard, Tufts or MIT, and for a social sciences degree at...

Congrats to your daughter! I am indeed applying early; hoping for better odds in the SCEA round, but it's coin-flip either way. I actually might have an answer on that front by the wintertime, since the decisions for early action applicants are released on December 15. Thankfully, I've got...

Got the call from my CO today- verbal confirmation of a 4-year NROTC scholarship. I think that call might have made my year :biggrin: So, let's get this thing going! Navy Option East Asian Studies Harvard University

Since I'm looking at Navy Option NROTC, no PFT component was included. However, I'm a varsity athlete for track and field, and the standards for females isn't anything that would pose a concern to me. I have a 1490 SAT (800 CR, 690 MA), with an 800 in writing (though the writing score is not...

Okay; as a student given ISR designation this past June, I have to comment. I'm quite certain that we do not skip the board. In fact, having had the ISR paperwork turned in for some months now, I must confirm that I haven't heard a thing since, aside from some reassurances by my CO. Parents of...

If DoDMERB is down so often, how are NROTC applicants supposed to use it to check their status? I've read in old threads that it has historically been the first source for confirmation. Am I simply using the wrong site to access DoDMERB?

Yet another change on the DODMERB website. The message now reads: "Website Temporarily Unavailable and Under Maintenance for status inquiries! However, Detachments may still go to the Shipping Link. If you log on, you will not have current information." Is this an annual reboot of some sort?