Where are you going to school? major?

I received an NROTC Marine Option Scholarship to Penn State and my major is History most likely.
 
Just curious are NROTC Marine option academic requirements different than NROTC. Daughter was awarded Tier 2 NROTC which requires technical major. We were under impression 85% of NROTC Scholarships require technical major. Good for you if you are in the other 15%. Congratulations on your awesome achievement and good wishes for your successful future.
 
Navy vs Marine requirements are different....

Yes SKC, the Navy does focus upon "technical" skills for their officers more than the USMC does. Why? Because of the technical nature involved in running ships; it's that simple. Ships are floating cities of complex machinery, electricity, plumbing, propulsion, fire-control, damage-control, flight operations, radar, sonar, communications, and structual engineering. Shakespeare, Kant, and financial accounting won't serve you very well as an officer aboard a ship.

Everything a Marine Corps officer needs to know about leading people in combat, they will teach you. You will never find what the Corps needs its officers to know in any college course.

Mission of both the USNA and NROTC program is to produce "Line Officers" - especially the USNA. Few, if any, JAG, PAO, Medical or even "Intelligence" officers come out of the academy. They want 99% of their Navy officers graduates to go to the fleet as "Line Officers". Same is true of their Marine graduates; they want these graduates to be focused upon the "combat arms".


Hope this helps.

All the best,
Bob McMahon
 
Recived AROTC Scholarship
Going to University of San Francisco
Nursing (ARMY NURSE)
 
Received NROTC Marine Option scholarship. Penn State, majoring in Aero Engineering
 
Attending USNA
Backup is UCLA NROTC (if things change between now and I day) Math Major
Received AFROTC, Michigan, Chinese
Received AROTC, Indiana, Math
Also admitted to Wisconsin, Alabama, Ole Miss
 
Daughter recieved NROTC scholarship to University of Wisconsin, wants to major in aerospace engineering. Still waiting patiently on USNA....:smile: Congrats to everyone who has recieved an ROTC scholarship!
 
My son is finishing up as a Freshman w/ 4 Year Tier 1 Full ROTC scholarship @ Colorado School of Mines. He LOVES the battalion commanders and fellow candidates and is a Physics major, minor in explosives. They just finished the Bataan Death March Heavy pack division 2 weeks ago.
He was wait-listed last year in all 3 academies, took the ROTC and hasn't looked back.
Best to you.
Guitarhero
 
It's looking like VMI for our son, which, since it's his first choice, he is really happy about; they offered him a scholarship (which was a very welcome surprise!) So, if the AROTC scholarship does not come through for him on this next last round, my husband and I are thinking we want to make this work for him (we are OOS, so we are grateful for VMI's help with the tuition.)

He will major in history, do Army ROTC.

It's an exciting time!!

HMQ
 
Official letters/packets came over the weekend. Son is heading to Penn on Marine option scholarship.
 
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