Preparing for Matriculation @ VMI

Got mine yesterday..... $17,000 in "VMI Local Scholarships" for my freshman year! Definitely covers that $12k I needed for room and board.... Does anyone know if the extra can be used for STP? :biggrin:

DD got her letter off post view

I suggest you do as we did and contact Major Brashears or Col Golden

I do not believe those funds cover STP
 
Financial Aid

Got mine yesterday..... $17,000 in "VMI Local Scholarships" for my freshman year! Definitely covers that $12k I needed for room and board.... Does anyone know if the extra can be used for STP? :biggrin:

Hi S & H,
My son also got his Financial award letter, problem is, it doesnt show the ROTC scholarship on it......I think they will redo it AFTER the ROTC scholarship is put into place, which means(at least I think it means) that the total financial aid number that you were awarded will be subtracted from total cost of attendance (OOS $45,946) leaves your Expected Family Contribution. I dont think they will allow the VMI local scholarship monies along with what you will be getting paid by ROTC.

For example:

If your total Financial aid pkg (subsidized direct and unsubsidized direct loans+Perkins Loan + VMI local scholarship) adds up to $24,946......you need to subtract that from $45,946 which leaves $21,000. This $21,000 is your expected Family Contribution. AFTER the AROTC scholarship is applied, your bill will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000 give or take. they have already deemed that your EFC is $21,000, therefore , you will get the unsibsidized and subsidized direct loans as well as Perkins loans, but NO local scholarships. Leaving a bill to pay.

Maybe your financil aid letter showed the ROTC scholarship- my son's didn't- therefore that is how I interpret it.... just my 2 cents.... I could be wrong.

That will look at STP separately to see if you get any financial aid for it...... they told me that they will not give financial aid awards until after the deadline for applying for STP to give all a fair shot at monies.
 
Yes yut, the Army ROTC scholarship is not shown and won't count until we pass the APFT on campus and can start receiving benefits. The enrollment officer at the Institute told me that we won't receive any money until we pass the PFT, so we will effectively have to make that first tuition payment due before Matriculation on our own.
 
And even better - don't forget them when they are 3rd's as that is worse than being a Rat.

Everyone loves a Rat. Everyone hates a 3rd. Save some love for your 3rd to be.


I know a lot of people say that, but I found being a Third way superior to being a Rat.

No Cadre, no dykes, a chance to do extracurriculars and focus on your classes; it's much better than being a Rat. Your BRs still like you even if everyone else thinks you eat sh#t. Yeah, picking your hay up from the courtyard after a class check-form sucks, but I'll put up with that over straining any day! You usually got to give a sweat party after it, too (and it is better to give one of those than receive it).

Being a Second was the best, though. None of the stress of being the class in charge of Barracks (but decent leadership roles available), one last summer to look forward to (I went to Oxford), and you get your ring and a bit of respect from above and below. Very close to your BRs that year.

First Class year-while nice to have all the weekends-had the issues of dealing with Rats and of waiting for the long slog to finally end. A few always get huge egos by that time, and it can be more divisive. I just wanted to get the hell out of Dodge for most of that year. Other people's experiences vary, I'm sure.

I think the Rat Bible used to have something comparing the four years to Shakespearean works:

Rat Year: The Tempest
Third: Much Ado about Nothing
Second: A Midsummer Night's Dream
First: All's Well That Ends Well

I might have screwed it up, but it was something like that.
 
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Yes yut, the Army ROTC scholarship is not shown and won't count until we pass the APFT on campus and can start receiving benefits. The enrollment officer at the Institute told me that we won't receive any money until we pass the PFT, so we will effectively have to make that first tuition payment due before Matriculation on our own.

I believe if you attend STP, they allow you to take Army PFT at that time, whereas if you do not attend STP, they have you arrive the day before matriculation to take it.
 
Rat Year: The Tempest
Third: Much Ado about Nothing
Second: A Midsummer Night's Dream
First: All's Well That Ends Well
I might have screwed it up, but it was something like that.

Here, Here. Definitely fitting...
 
I believe if you attend STP, they allow you to take Army PFT at that time, whereas if you do not attend STP, they have you arrive the day before matriculation to take it.

I don't believe there is any military component to STP - physical fitness, yes, but nothing formally military, including (I think) the APFT. My DS has received a AROTC to VMI and will be attending STP. ROTC won't begin to pay his tuition to the Institute until 45 days after the beginning of fall semester, assuming a passing score on the APFT. I assume the VMI AROTC unit does all of the initial APFT sometime in late August or early September.
 
I don't believe there is any military component to STP - physical fitness, yes, but nothing formally military, including (I think) the APFT. My DS has received a AROTC to VMI and will be attending STP. ROTC won't begin to pay his tuition to the Institute until 45 days after the beginning of fall semester, assuming a passing score on the APFT. I assume the VMI AROTC unit does all of the initial APFT sometime in late August or early September.

I'm in the same boat.... Do we just take out a loan for the first semester payment then?
 
I'm in the same boat.... Do we just take out a loan for the first semester payment then?

My DS matriculated almost 2 years ago with a 4 year AROTC scholarship as well, and we never had to take out a loan first. They accounted for the scholarship money up front. It was already in Post View when it was time to pay what was owed for the first semester. I don't think things have changed. Good luck!
 
My DS matriculated almost 2 years ago with a 4 year AROTC scholarship as well, and we never had to take out a loan first. They accounted for the scholarship money up front. It was already in Post View when it was time to pay what was owed for the first semester. I don't think things have changed. Good luck!

Great news! Thank you for letting us know!
 
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