So I asked on reddit and someone suggested that I ask here. Just going to copy paste what I said. Thanks in advance for reading/answering!
So a week/2 ago an army recruiter/counselor just kind of stopped me out of nowhere and started talking to me about the reserves. Long story short I took the ASVAB yesterday (99 AFQT, dont remember my other scores as he left the paper in his office, I'm going back there tomorrow if you need to know the others) and tomorrow I'm going to MEPS. I'm highly considering joining the reserves as it puts money in my pocket/gives me work experience/builds networking/life changing and becuase I'm interested in it (also helps pay for college). IIRC my recruiter said if I decide to join I'll have to do 6 years for full benefit (GI Bill). He also talked about rotc but we didn't get to talk too about it. These questions might be dumb but I can't find/infer the answers. Anyways:
1) Does being in the reserves affect my chances for ROTC/can I still apply for the 4 year ROTC? I googled but couldn't find the answer, on the website it says has to do 4 years active + 4 years reserve so I was wondering if I'm even allowed for it as it sounds like it might be a incentive for those not already in reserves/AD to join.
2) Are the scholarships full tuition? It just talks about monthly stipends, it has a bullet that says full tuition but I don't know if this means it is or if some of the scholarships are.
3) If I am qualified for the scholarship does the 6 year contract I sign count as part of the 4 years AD+4years reserves or not?
4) Do I have to do AD? Only reason I ask is because my recruiter made it sound like I could stay reserves for the whole period and also because I saw another thread here where someone said you could do 8 years of reserves.
Note that I'm not in the reserves yet but I probably will be in the near future. Also what is the competition like for the scholarships? If someone wants to give me a "chance me" I'll list some stats below (note that this is all junior year and below):
Took AP chem, AP calc bc, AP bio, AP US History, AP Psych, AP World. Scores were 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4 respectively. I also got As in all of them except calc bc where I got C first quarter, B 2nd quarter and an A 3rd quarter. My GPA (uw) is around 3.75 and for ecs I've done cross country and track except I'm not doing them senior year because I'm taking college classes instead. I have no communty service though. I'm pretty sure I'm in top 10% (I was in top 5% end of junior year but senioritis = grades have dropped start of senior year so I'm probably not anymore once this quarter ends)
So a week/2 ago an army recruiter/counselor just kind of stopped me out of nowhere and started talking to me about the reserves. Long story short I took the ASVAB yesterday (99 AFQT, dont remember my other scores as he left the paper in his office, I'm going back there tomorrow if you need to know the others) and tomorrow I'm going to MEPS. I'm highly considering joining the reserves as it puts money in my pocket/gives me work experience/builds networking/life changing and becuase I'm interested in it (also helps pay for college). IIRC my recruiter said if I decide to join I'll have to do 6 years for full benefit (GI Bill). He also talked about rotc but we didn't get to talk too about it. These questions might be dumb but I can't find/infer the answers. Anyways:
1) Does being in the reserves affect my chances for ROTC/can I still apply for the 4 year ROTC? I googled but couldn't find the answer, on the website it says has to do 4 years active + 4 years reserve so I was wondering if I'm even allowed for it as it sounds like it might be a incentive for those not already in reserves/AD to join.
2) Are the scholarships full tuition? It just talks about monthly stipends, it has a bullet that says full tuition but I don't know if this means it is or if some of the scholarships are.
3) If I am qualified for the scholarship does the 6 year contract I sign count as part of the 4 years AD+4years reserves or not?
4) Do I have to do AD? Only reason I ask is because my recruiter made it sound like I could stay reserves for the whole period and also because I saw another thread here where someone said you could do 8 years of reserves.
Note that I'm not in the reserves yet but I probably will be in the near future. Also what is the competition like for the scholarships? If someone wants to give me a "chance me" I'll list some stats below (note that this is all junior year and below):
Took AP chem, AP calc bc, AP bio, AP US History, AP Psych, AP World. Scores were 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4 respectively. I also got As in all of them except calc bc where I got C first quarter, B 2nd quarter and an A 3rd quarter. My GPA (uw) is around 3.75 and for ecs I've done cross country and track except I'm not doing them senior year because I'm taking college classes instead. I have no communty service though. I'm pretty sure I'm in top 10% (I was in top 5% end of junior year but senioritis = grades have dropped start of senior year so I'm probably not anymore once this quarter ends)
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