DS has arranged a visit to the NROTC unit where he has been awarded a scholarship. He is viewing this as an interview from both directions (he has not been accepted to the university). He’ll have an opportunity to be with the unit for about 6 hours.
Any advice on specific things to look for or ask.
How many in unit, on scholarship, on Advanced Standing?
Avg GPA in unit, % tech majors?
If MO, how do they prepare for OCS. How many complete OCS?
What clubs/teams do they have? Aviation? Spec Warfare? Pistol?
How do they get funds for the unit's social activities?
Basically, I would think he would want to ask questions that give him a sense of the unit, its composition, how many who start actually commission, how active the unit is, etc. Its going to be his home away from home for 4 years. He needs to figure out if he would be comfortable there and that they can help him to be successful in achieving his own goals.
For example, my son's unit started with 40+ at freshman orientation, and are now down to 25. If he's not seeing attrition in the unit then either everyone is really good, or the unit isn't tough enough? (At least that's the conclusions I would draw). One thing that really drew my son to the unit was that they had 100% completion rate at OCS while an SMC in the same state did not. That was something they were proud of.
Keep in mind there is no thing as a dumb question - unless the answer is already on their web site. I'm sure he's reviewed everything publicly available about the unit already.