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    USMA Separated & Recoupment

    Corn Chowder, I haven't been here in years but just popped in and saw your post from 2019. I posted about my son's situation a decade ago with disenrollment. Did you get any relief from the debt at all? We have battled DFAS for 9 years and his issue was about a weight standard that he failed...
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    Disenrollment update or why you should only accept an ROTC scholarship if you can afford to pay it back

    I think the public school option would have been a better option for him in hindsight. We rarely have that insight going in. At the time he was calculating the length of program being extended due to a more difficult degree along with proximity to the local Naval base being great for training.
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    Disenrollment update or why you should only accept an ROTC scholarship if you can afford to pay it back

    Also after the PRB meeting in Nov 2011, they gave him another “tape test” 24 hours later. Not sure about you, but even a major stress situation is unlikely to make you to lose 7 pounds in 24 hours. The reality was my son was always on the edges of not passing due to his build from day one - yet...
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    Disenrollment update or why you should only accept an ROTC scholarship if you can afford to pay it back

    Never was counseled on weight. He was working out a lot in the gym that semester. One very interesting issue after we requested docs for his file was his CO signed many of his yearly progress reports AFTER his disenrollment date. I am not sure if that is what they were called - but it was clear...
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    Disenrollment update or why you should only accept an ROTC scholarship if you can afford to pay it back

    @Recoveringhelicoptermom Tier one Mechanical Engineering. Private college. Also studied Arabic at the cross town school in summers and studied Arabic in Jordan for two months in his junior year.
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    Disenrollment update or why you should only accept an ROTC scholarship if you can afford to pay it back

    Haven't been here in long time. Back in 2011, my son was disenrolled for failing to meet weight standards, 3 weeks before commissioning and graduation with a NROTC scholarship in Engineering. Long story short, hired a lawyer - lost about $5K getting pretty much no advice except for a letter...
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    How NOT to represent the NROTC

    I wonder if my son was a Biden if he would still get that big Navy ROTC disenrollment bill? My guess is no.
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    Frustration with ROTC!

    Thought I would stop by. I check in periodically, for no other reason than to see if anyone else here has gone through what my son did with his disenrollment a few years ago. Just to correct a fact or two - it was three weeks from commission and graduation for disenrollment. Uniforms ordered...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    I rarely check here anymore, but wanted to let you know that DFAS is again asking for original amount of payment after my son negotiated for a longer payment plan. Again seeking $4000 a month. Sent off paperwork and hope it goes back to original lowered rate of $1200 a month. It is...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    No more appeals for son, dunninla. It is a lost cause. Being able to bench press his roommate wasn't part of the tape measure test. Because he didn't meet the normal standard for height and weight, he was taped. He was always a stockier kid to begin with. Fries were not his problem in...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    ABF is absolutely right.
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    They wouldn't do dunk test for Navy ROTC. Looking back to son's weight when he started, to end of his ROTC experience- there is no way I would have advised him that path. His weight was too close for comfort the minute he got his scholarship. He was far more fit as a senior in college...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    Cotton & Alligators, Muscle weighs more than fat. My kid spent a lot of time in gym his last year - he wasn't fat. He was out of compliance. Glad this has been helpful info. That is why I initially posted it two years ago. Hate for others to go through what our son went through if they...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    Sage, I sent you a pm. I almost never am here since I don't really fit demographic, anymore. however, I am still subscribed to thread.
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    disenrolled 22 days before graduation

    It won't exactly be easy transferring - it won't happen by fall, anyway, unless a college takes pity on him and does some sort of special admit or has rolling admission into the summer months. Most apps for transfer students were filed last fall and winter, for fall 2013 admissions...
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    disenrolled 22 days before graduation

    That is a good point, stella. My son who was disenrolled from ROTC will be living at home for the foreseeable future. Even with reduced payments spread out longer over 10 years, it is a huge bite into a salary. For bigdog's son, the added issue is whether or not the son will end up...
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    disenrolled 22 days before graduation

    I believe DFAS debt is not dischargable in bankruptcy. That is what we were told.
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    disenrolled 22 days before graduation

    Bigdog, As Pima mentioned, we went through hiring a lawyer for our son's NROTC disenrollment. Obviously, each case is unique, but if you hire a lawyer, get a former military one. We spent about $5000 with lawyer just to file paperwork for appeal. Feel free to pm me, if you have any...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    I do not understand your point, NorwichDad. Do you believe these two young men would not uphold their oath? I suppose you could say my son did not faithfully get on the scale every day to see he was over his weight standards. His clothes fit, so he didn't think anything was out of ordinary...
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    Update on disenrollment from NROTC

    True - on plus side, he had his degree very shortly after this incident. That definitely would not have happened at a service academy!
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