I have always been under the assumption that A/NROTC are not like AFROTC where you can lose the scholarship if not selected for SFT, for them I believe there is no re-evaluation unless you do not maintain the min gpa.
I think the budget issue is already rearing it's cranium since there are many posts saying that there will only be 70 NROTC side load IS scholarships awarded in total this yr nationally.
I still have not heard if AFROTC will be awarding any IS scholarships this yr. JMPO, but I think it will be cancelled again because the SFT selection is still hovering at the 50%, why award a scholarship for a 200 and than 6 months into it have them not selected for SFT, thus they cannot commission. It would be a waste of money.
JMPO again, and I HAVE NO BONE IN THIS FIGHT, but I think that in a way it is a waste of money to pay 2 yrs for a scholarship and than revoke it because they didn't get SFT. I am not saying that they should allow all recipients to go to SFT. I am saying it is a waste of hundreds of thousands, if not millions... 50 cadets with a Type 2 of 18K a yr, for 2 yrs = @2 million dollars that will never be recouped.
I would love to see a report regarding the gpa of non-scholarship compared to scholarship cadets. That and the % of scholarship cadets that go SFT compared to non-scholarship. My assumption would be scholarship cadets have a higher rate of acceptance to SFT than non. Not because they are awarded extra points, or given an edge by the CC, but because that gpa from minute one is on their back.
However, with the reduction in AFROTC scholarships, many of the non-AFROTC scholarship cadets receive merit scholarships at their university only. DS has both AFROTC and university merit scholarship. His university requires he maintain at least a 3.2, and they take out the gpa to the 1/1000 which is higher than the AFROTC scholarship, I believe AFROTC is 2.8. Hence, for some cadets that are AFROTC scholarship only may have a lower gpa than the university scholarship cadet.
There is a lot of money to be found, but the problem for ROTC is like the AD world. The talk is they will hit the retirement pay system, but where do you hit it? It is about changing direction mid-stream. Cadets that sign on for the A/NROTC scholarship right now have that guarantee of 4 yrs., so they can't go back on them, and the ones that are meeting boards currently also believe if they get it they have 4 yrs. YET, the DOD needs to cut now, so where is it they can take away immediately without hurting man power needs.
They can do it by cancelling the IS board.
As I said before if you look deep into this system, it is pretty insane. Colleges like PSU has 1.546 BILLION (system wide), meanwhile a little known dirty secret is that they also charge all of their ROTC units rent. Maybe the DOD should man up and say, X % of students attend here because of the ROTC unit, stop charging us rent.
At UMDCP, they have 2 ROTC branches on campus. A and AF ROTC. A is the bigger of the two. They have not only the nicer facility, but also are charged less than the AF. AF should go to them and say, we need the rent to be decreased.