ProudSwimDad
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DS is applying for both NROTC and AFROTC, and is looking at some pretty elite schools (Ivy League, MIT) where he would also participate in varsity sports and a couple of other schools where he would do ROTC and not compete in athletics (USC & Georgia Tech). Here is a bit on his background:
SAT: 800 Math; 740 Reading
GBA: 3.88 unweighted (75% of his credits were from AP and honors classes)
High School Sports: 5 year letter winner in diving, will be swim/dive team captain his senior year. Placed 10th and 6th in state the last two years.
Club Sports: 8 year participant in Trampoline and Tumbling; won national championships in 2012 and 2013.
Boy Scouts: Achieved rank of Eagle Scout; was Assistant Senior Patrol leader for 12 months and Senior Patrol Leader for 6 months of troop with 50-plus scouts.
National Honor Society
Debate Team Member (3-years)
He is interested in a technical track (Engineering or Computer Science).
He also has a sister at the Naval Academy and will likely be applying there as well, though given the choice I think he would choose an ROTC scholarship at MIT over the Academy.
My first question is how competitive does he look for a 4-year scholarship to one of these elite schools? Second question, he does not have any local public schools he is interested in. Will he need to include one in his list of school choices? Third, can anyone speak to combining ROTC participation along with Varsity athletics participation? Can the time commitment be balanced so you are not hurting how you are viewed within the ROTC program? Final question for now is related to commissioning and service selection. I believe a substantial portion of your ranking which helps determine if you get the service selection you want is your college GPA. Do they factor in the college you went to or just blindly use the GPA you achieved when determining service selections?
Thanks for the feedback...
SAT: 800 Math; 740 Reading
GBA: 3.88 unweighted (75% of his credits were from AP and honors classes)
High School Sports: 5 year letter winner in diving, will be swim/dive team captain his senior year. Placed 10th and 6th in state the last two years.
Club Sports: 8 year participant in Trampoline and Tumbling; won national championships in 2012 and 2013.
Boy Scouts: Achieved rank of Eagle Scout; was Assistant Senior Patrol leader for 12 months and Senior Patrol Leader for 6 months of troop with 50-plus scouts.
National Honor Society
Debate Team Member (3-years)
He is interested in a technical track (Engineering or Computer Science).
He also has a sister at the Naval Academy and will likely be applying there as well, though given the choice I think he would choose an ROTC scholarship at MIT over the Academy.
My first question is how competitive does he look for a 4-year scholarship to one of these elite schools? Second question, he does not have any local public schools he is interested in. Will he need to include one in his list of school choices? Third, can anyone speak to combining ROTC participation along with Varsity athletics participation? Can the time commitment be balanced so you are not hurting how you are viewed within the ROTC program? Final question for now is related to commissioning and service selection. I believe a substantial portion of your ranking which helps determine if you get the service selection you want is your college GPA. Do they factor in the college you went to or just blindly use the GPA you achieved when determining service selections?
Thanks for the feedback...