Chance me for an AROTC scholarship?

[gojack]

Just a random thought, Alabama's not on your radar, neither was on DS's until we visited. Beautiful campus, friendly, great academics. The merit scholarship and ROTC scholarship can combine to form a full ride scholarship - No student loans. AROTC has a great program there, and it's warm, no cold O'dark:thirty PT

And UA Honors college is like a small elite college inside a large University

"UA Scholar Scholarship
An out-of-state first time freshman student who meets the December 1st scholarship priority deadline, has a 30-31 ACT or 1330-1390 SAT score [critical reading and math scores only] and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will be selected as a UA Scholar and will receive 2/3 tuition for four years."

"Presidential Scholar Scholarship
An out-of-state first-time freshman student who meets the December 1st scholarship priority deadline, has a 32-36 ACT or 1400-1600 SAT score [critical reading and math scores only] and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will be selected as a Presidential Scholar and will receive the value of out-of-state tuition for four years."

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[newhampshirecandidate]

That's a sweet deal gojack, I'm kind of wishing I'd looked into the University of Alabama now haha.

[aexc400]

Thank you so much to everyone! I'll look at those schools.

[Pima]

UVA is incredibly competitive, and I would strongly suggest if you want to have a chance re-take the SAT. 590 M is going to be an uphill battle with admissions, even as an OOS.

UVA is the number 2 public university in the nation, it is considered a Public IVY. It accepts @70% from IS, and IS students have a higher M SAT. 30% of the admitted are spread across the 49 other states in the nation.

As someone in Virginia, William and Mary is seen as just as competitive, if not more.

[armydaughter]

Originally Posted by aexc400

As far as area goes I'd like to be in PA, NY, MD, DE, OH, or VA I think.

As far as campus size and location I'm really open to anything, I'm pretty flexible.

For finances I'm looking to get as much scholarship as possible wherever I go. I definitely want to do ROTC wherever I attend college even if I don't get a scholarship. I'll need pretty good merit/need based scholarship though.

I think I'd prefer to be a "big fish in a small pond". I go to a small high school now and it's just what I'm used to.

As far as my parents go, their first choice for me is West Point but if I do ROTC they don't really care about the prestige of a school as long as I'm happy with it and it's affordable. I'd like to go to a school that has somewhat good name recognition but it's not like I'm looking to go to an Ivy.

History I've just always been interested in and it comes easily to me for some reason. I like American history best but I also enjoy European and world.
For language I'll be taking Spanish 5 next year so I'm fairly advanced in it and I plan to continue to study it in college.

My son just finished campus visits in NJ/MD/VA. Two state schools that you might want to consider are James Madison and University of Maryland. Both would be OOS for you but JMU is not too pricey, even OOS. My son was particularly impressed by the ROTC program and cadre at Maryland. Both are large schools with lots of options for honors, etc.

FWIW, the online AROTC application lets you list up to seven schools which you must rank. If you use all seven, at least three must be public.

[Pima]

JMU and UMDCP are great colleges, but they are night and day differences.

JMU is in a very rural area, and the college is more LAC oriented. It is a beautiful campus, but outside of the college there is not much life.

I think JMU is much more like a big fish in a small pond compared to UMDCP. UMDCP is a very big pond, it is their flagship school in MD. (DS commissioned from there only a month ago). Put it this way, the graduation ceremonies (handing out diplomas) were dispersed among Sunday and Monday, every 2 hrs from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. in @ 6 different buildings on campus. His Govt and Politics class was @500 students, and that was not considered the largest.

UMDCP is in an urban setting, The AROTC unit there is very large. It too is a beautiful campus, but many people are off put by the fact it is a college town. If city life in not for you, than this college may not be a strong choice. The one bid draw for UMDCP is they have fabulous internships, and if selected in the Scholars, Gemstone or Honors program you will get to be a part of the internships (degree requirement).

I also agree UMDCP is very pricey as an OOS, and they do not give IS to ROTC cadets. As I stated DS just graduated, and from start to finish in 4 yrs the cost went from 28K to 40K a yr (Tuition, Room and Board). A yr from now I am betting it will be 43K. UMDCP is also known to be competitive for OOS students from NJ/NY/PA, since it is very popular among hs students in those states.


VT is a college I would look into if you want the big fish, small pond community. It also has the plus of being an SMC. The problem is if you attend VT, you must be in the Corps as a ROTC cadet. For some students they do not want to live in a ROTC dorm.

[goaliedad]

Thanks to the above for VA public recommendations. I figured that there would be people better than I to pick from that state's publics.

If Clarkson is still watching this thread, I'd like to know if CC is weighing Public school scholarships on an in-state vs OOS basis - i.e. if a public has 4 scholarships, can some/any/all of them go to OOS students or do they reduce the number of scholarships by the difference in OOS tuition (4 instate vs 2 OOS) when they award them to OOS students? Or do they tend to give 3-yr AD to OOS to make up the tuition difference?

I say this because the OP has an in-state public (U Pitt) on her list and a difference in OOS awards could say that she might weigh this when considering the order of her Public schools on her list.

[aexc400]

I've been looking at some SUNY schools and I'm thinking about replacing UVA and W&M with Geneseo and Binghamton. I think I would have a better chance of getting into these schools as they're less competitive to get into apparently.