deposit

In the spirit of “you don’t know, what you don’t know”, is there any reason to put a deposit down for a plan b, which is a state university with a type 7 AFROTC scholarship? My DS has been accepted at USAFA and cleared by DoDMERB. Just not sure if there are anymore “hurdles” to jump but also...

Does anyone know how tuition payment at a backup school works? I'm planning to pay the deposit and submit a housing application to backup school in case I end up getting injured before or during Beast. I don't want to end up paying the tuition for the first year if it is automatically charged...