EOD/SEALmom
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Gabetrini - I just read through some of your previous posts. I sure hope you are NOT taking illicit drugs and I also hope you are serious enough about the NROTC MO scholarship that you would not decline it, if you should be awarded one.
I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.
She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.
She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.
Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.
Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:
1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior
2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)
3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.
4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)
5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree
While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!
I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.
She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.
She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.
Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.
Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:
1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior
2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)
3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.
4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)
5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree
While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!