NROTC for Purdue University

Not having required, or sufficient required, courses could impact a sideload scholarship. At some point you'll be writing orders which is why they require English Comp.

You should be mapping out the major courses, including required ones, semester by semester, paying close attention to prereqs. I bet if you did that you would find you could put off one required course for your major. Keep in mind some courses are only offered in the fall, some only in the spring, some only every other year. You'll need to do this course mapping for NROTC anyway, for all 120 hours (or whatever it is at your college) to get your Bachelors. You'll need to go through it each semester to keep it up to date and submit it to your NROTC adviser. You might as well start that process now. In fact, I bet your college's NROTC web site has a document you can download, print, and start filling out. Planning is always good.

English Composition during senior year is definitely NOT a good idea, in any case. You will be required to write in college. That is why colleges encourage you to take that freshman year. Of course, it's your decision, but being an old (even very old) and experienced college grad, that's not how I would tackle it.

kinnem said:

Not having required, or sufficient required, courses could impact a sideload scholarship. At some point you'll be writing orders which is why they require English Comp.

You should be mapping out the major courses, including required ones, semester by semester, paying close attention to prereqs. I bet if you did that you would find you could put off one required course for your major. Keep in mind some courses are only offered in the fall, some only in the spring, some only every other year. You'll need to do this course mapping for NROTC anyway, for all 120 hours (or whatever it is at your college) to get your Bachelors. You'll need to go through it each semester to keep it up to date and submit it to your NROTC adviser. You might as well start that process now. In fact, I bet your college's NROTC web site has a document you can download, print, and start filling out. Planning is always good.

English Composition during senior year is definitely NOT a good idea, in any case. You will be required to write in college. That is why colleges encourage you to take that freshman year. Of course, it's your decision, but being an old (even very old) and experienced college grad, that's not how I would tackle it.

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Thank you very much for the input. Purdue did give me a sheet with my courses all mapped out already. There are two courses that I can take later that are a credit hour each. I will discuss that plan with my academic advisor also. I do want to get English out of the way as fast as possible though...

Hey, sorry I've been silent for so long. I saw your post a few weeks ago, but I hadn't attended STAR at the time, so I wasn't very qualified to answer your questions lol.

When it comes to my PMing problem, it's because I haven't posted five times yet on this website.

Anyways, I just had my STAR session and am back home in MN, so now I can answer.

FYI, I am in the First Year Engineering program, so my answer may not apply to your situation.

During my junior year, I took AP Language and Composition, a writing course that covers the semester long writing English class at Purdue if you score at least a 4. Since I scored a 4, I will not have to take the writing English class.

That class is one semester long and half of the English requirement for FYE. The other half, which is the Oral English class, I already got credits for as well. Senior year, I took CIS Intro to Public Speaking through the University of Minnesota that was offered at my school. My credits achieved through taking that class transfer to credits for the oral semester, therefore getting me out of that class as well.

Fortunately, that means I have no English classes for my freshman year. Bringing me to 15 credit hours with the Naval Science classes.

Again, this is only my situation. It is very unique since I was fortunate enough to gain these credits during High School. I am not aware what your major requires compared to mine, so I cannot offer too much guidance on that issue.

Only you know you and how you handle school work. Be real with yourself and think about what you can handle.

Sorry for not being really any help, that's just my situation. Good luck with your decision.