Room and Board

The NROTC scholarship students at Holy Cross in Worcester, MA have traditionally been granted an additional benefit by the college of having their individual "room" fee credited by the college. The student is still responsible for paying their individual "board" fee. For the 2011/12 academic calendar year this policy is in effect and the value of that credit is right around $6000. To date, there has been no notification that this policy will change going forward.
 
patentesq said:
gojack, very useful document, although it may become dated. LSU appears to have nixed the room and board grant this year because of budget cuts.
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Anyone can update the document, please do so as new info becomes available
 
AROTC room and board at Georgetown University

Does anyone know if Georgetown (Hoya Batallion) gives any room and board incentive?
 
Are you sure Louisiana State no longer has room and board with scholarship? The Army school look up page states they do.
 
jomo said:
Does anyone know if Georgetown (Hoya Batallion) gives any room and board incentive?
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Here is the 10/21/12 reply from Georgetown AROTC ROO MAJ Richard Hull
Rh345@georgetown.edu

"Georgetown University Army ROTC offers the normal ROTC scholarships that cover either all tuitions & fees or room & board. Unfortunately, our universities (Georgetown, George Washington, American and Catholic) do not offer any other scholarships along with the normal ROTC scholarship, except for George Washington University which will give $1000 for room and $1000 for board for any engineering degree that has a normal ROTC scholarship."
 
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Does the candidate get to choose either all tuition and fees, or room and board, or is that pre-determined? Thanks.
 
NROTC mechanical eng with room/board incentive

My son got his scholarship assigned to his 1st choice (state school). I think he is happy to just apply there early and be done. But given this thread, I'm thinking it would be worth applying at one or two more good engineering schools (assigned tier 1) if they are at least as good as where he was accepted and have the room and board incentive. Drexel and RPI come to mind. Then of course he would have to request to be transferred. Opinions?
 
Mman5247 said:
My son got his scholarship assigned to his 1st choice (state school). I think he is happy to just apply there early and be done. But given this thread, I'm thinking it would be worth applying at one or two more good engineering schools (assigned tier 1) if they are at least as good as where he was accepted and have the room and board incentive. Drexel and RPI come to mind. Then of course he would have to request to be transferred. Opinions?
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For NROTC I believe Drexel is host for Univ of Penn. Congratulations to your son. My son got his acceptance to the state school (engineering) that was originally his 2nd choice. We visited last weekend and he loved it. He sent a request to switch it to number 1 choice.
Are you from PA?
 
gojack said:
Here is the 10/21/12 reply from Georgetown AROTC ROO MAJ Richard Hull
Rh345@georgetown.edu

"Georgetown University Army ROTC offers the normal ROTC scholarships that cover either all tuitions & fees or room & board. Unfortunately, our universities (Georgetown, George Washington, American and Catholic) do not offer any other scholarships along with the normal ROTC scholarship, except for George Washington University which will give $1000 for room and $1000 for board for any engineering degree that has a normal ROTC scholarship."
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Having to pay room and board is one reason that CC will consider transferring the scholarship. If there is a second choice that is equally or less expensive, and offers R&B, you can request a transfer.
 
I assumed the scholarship covered everything. Oh well, the good gpa bonus could be used to pay for some of it then, correct?
 
NEVER trust the info from the ROTC pages about room and board (it is notoriously outdated and even has a disclaimer that it might not be accurate). ALWAYS check with the battalion or unit in question. I know for a fact that LSU does NOT cover room and board for NROTC. My son's best friend just came home and had to give up his scholarship because room and board expenses were too much for his family and his test scores fell 1 point shy of getting academic scholarship $ from the school that would have helped.
 
NavyMama said:
NEVER trust the info from the ROTC pages about room and board (it is notoriously outdated and even has a disclaimer that it might not be accurate). ALWAYS check with the battalion or unit in question. I know for a fact that LSU does NOT cover room and board for NROTC. My son's best friend just came home and had to give up his scholarship because room and board expenses were too much for his family and his test scores fell 1 point shy of getting academic scholarship $ from the school that would have helped.
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I concur. According to this thread, Penn State offers free room & board w/ scholarship. According to the Deputy PMS of AROTC branch, he specifically stated that ANY ROTC scholarship to Penn State ONLY covers tuition. Room and board is paid for by the cadets.

As of Dec. 2012.
 
Cadets may also want to check with the school's financial aid office in regards to grants covering room and board. While the ROTC scholarship may cover only tuition and fees some schools provide grants to ROTC scholarship recipients to cover room for the duration of the scholarship:thumb:
 
Thompson said:
I concur. According to this thread, Penn State offers free room & board w/ scholarship. According to the Deputy PMS of AROTC branch, he specifically stated that ANY ROTC scholarship to Penn State ONLY covers tuition. Room and board is paid for by the cadets.

As of Dec. 2012.
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As the mom of an AFROTC cadet at PSU, I can verify it is tuition only.
 
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