January 4, 2011 AROTC Board

[goaliedad]

I am picking up on a trend. 2 of our prospects received 4 year scholarship offers despite not receiving the full 200 points on the interview. Another prospect with 200 points also received a 4 year scholarship offer.

The common thread is that the offers were to lower cost schools. This year, the schools you listed on your application appear to be much more important than last year.

So if your prospects are not receiving scholarships to your school, who (if anone) is receiving the offers to your school?

 

[Jcleppe]

I am picking up on a trend. 2 of our prospects received 4 year scholarship offers despite not receiving the full 200 points on the interview. Another prospect with 200 points also received a 4 year scholarship offer.

The common thread is that the offers were to lower cost schools. This year, the schools you listed on your application appear to be much more important than last year.

What would happen to a school that falls into the more expensive category if they do not receive any scholarship cadets, would that school have funds available to offer a campus scholarship. Would the school just move on without and scholarship cadets and would they have the same contract mission. Would this open the door for more AMP and walk on cadets to obtain a future contract.

Best of luck in your recruiting efforts.

 

[Marist College ROTC]

So if your prospects are not receiving scholarships to your school, who (if anone) is receiving the offers to your school?

On at least some measuring sticks, Marist College qualifies as a lower cost school. At least one of our prospects just received the choice of a 4 year offer to Marist College or a 3 year offer to a more expensive private school.

Some of our prospects always receive scholarship offers to Marist College, but that does not always translate to actually getting a Scholarship Cadet. In recent years we have lost prospects to the service academies, Navy ROTC, and 4 year private foundation or alumni scholarships. In 2 of the past 4 years we started the Fall semester without any Scholarship freshmen. In those years we were able to offer several on campus scholarships to our prospects or negotiated to have their ROTC Scholarship transferred to Marist College.

I do not foresee much $ being available for on campus scholarships next Fall. My best guess for the Class of 2016 is that we will get one 4 year ROTC Scholarship and one 3 year ROTC Scholarship accepted by our prospects, and get another 1 or 2 prospects to transfer their scholarships over.