Please help with Plan B for my NROTC Nursing Option daughter

the Army was able to make their decreased numbers by some nursing cadets changing their majors and others not getting accepted into their school's nursing program.
This is interesting. My daughter received ROTC 4 year nursing scholarships from the Army, Navy and Air Force. I seem to recall (this was 4 years ago) that both the Navy and the Air Force required that she provide proof (letter of acceptance) showing that she was in a direct admit nursing program when she accepted her scholarships. This was of course in addition to the letter of acceptance from the college. Evidently the Army allows (or has allowed?) nursing cadets to receive a nursing scholarship in a 2+2 or 1+3 program. I thought I remembered one of the ROTC scholarships not requiring a direct entry letter of acceptance....must have been the Army. Thanks for the information.
 
My daughter had Michigan, University of Portland and Northern Arizona on her list of ROTC schhols. At Portland, she had to maintain a 2.75 in (5) core classes to guarantee she moved on to upper level nursing. I don't remember the details with Michigan but they also more or less guaranteed you moved up with a certain GPA but NAU is like most California schools. They let in alot more lower level nursing students than they ever plan on taking to upper level so after (2) years, you're score based on GPA, volunteer hours, a nursing related test score and RACE (certain folks get bonus points). If you made the cut, you get to move on.

I actually called the ROTC unit at NAU and asked about the nursing program. Even they weren't too up to speed on how the program worked. I was told that while the ROTC doesn't get any guaranteed slots for those on scholarship, they had never heard of anybody in ROTC not getting to move into the upper level classes.
 
This is interesting. My daughter received ROTC 4 year nursing scholarships from the Army, Navy and Air Force. I seem to recall (this was 4 years ago) that both the Navy and the Air Force required that she provide proof (letter of acceptance) showing that she was in a direct admit nursing program when she accepted her scholarships. This was of course in addition to the letter of acceptance from the college. Evidently the Army allows (or has allowed?) nursing cadets to receive a nursing scholarship in a 2+2 or 1+3 program. I thought I remembered one of the ROTC scholarships not requiring a direct entry letter of acceptance....must have been the Army. Thanks for the information.

Depends on the school. I got a 4 year scholarship before getting into nursing school because my school didn't accept applications till you had a year of pre reqs under your belt.

My ROTC had guaranteed slots with the nursing school too.
 
Depends on the school. I got a 4 year scholarship before getting into nursing school because my school didn't accept applications till you had a year of pre reqs under your belt.
Isn't this the 1+3 Program? Like the 2+2 nursing program you are not guaranteed a spot when you start the pre-requisites portion of the program but instead have to compete for a slot at the end of the 1st year (or 2nd year with the 2+2)? Generally more students (often a LOT more) start the program than there are actual nursing slots available after the first year. At the end of the first year you will also have to compete against any transfer students that took their pre-reqs somewhere else.....right?

k2rider: University of Portland sounds like most direct entry programs. There is more competition to get admitted and once in the program you must maintain a certain GPA overall and for your nursing core classes. Obviously the attractive part of these programs is that you ARE in the nursing program and don't have to take a chance on not being accepted in a year or two...provided you keep your GPA high enough. Again, as I recall both the Air Force and the Navy required that nursing students actually be admitted into a nursing program before they would award a scholarship. Clearly the Army was/is different.
 
Isn't this the 1+3 Program? Like the 2+2 nursing program you are not guaranteed a spot when you start the pre-requisites portion of the program but instead have to compete for a slot at the end of the 1st year (or 2nd year with the 2+2)? Generally more students (often a LOT more) start the program than there are actual nursing slots available after the first year. At the end of the first year you will also have to compete against any transfer students that took their pre-reqs somewhere else.....right?

k2rider: University of Portland sounds like most direct entry programs. There is more competition to get admitted and once in the program you must maintain a certain GPA overall and for your nursing core classes. Obviously the attractive part of these programs is that you ARE in the nursing program and don't have to take a chance on not being accepted in a year or two...provided you keep your GPA high enough. Again, as I recall both the Air Force and the Navy required that nursing students actually be admitted into a nursing program before they would award a scholarship. Clearly the Army was/is different.

My school is big on nursing so there is generally A LOT of attrition within the first year. When I graduated I probably knew more ex-nursing majors finishing their degrees (usually psych or education) than those in my nursing cohort.

Roughly 50% of our slots go to transfer students who are usually non-traditional college students. Many are parents in their 30, 40s and even 50s looking for a career change.
 
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