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Mom of a rising first that is an engineering major here: best advice I can give you is study calculus as much as you can on your own over the summer- youtube, Udemy, whatever. VMI is great, but some of their teachers can be, shall we say, lacking... and for some reason their math department...

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Take an SAT prep course and take the SAT as many times as you can. Your score will go up each time and is offered about every 2-3 months on Saturdays. See the college board website for dates and locations. This is the best money you will spend. The SAT carries a lot of weight... it is...

I would take an SAT or ACT prep course on understanding how they structure the questions... this can increase your score a lot. It did for my son. Other than that you are probably set, especially if you may play baseball for the school. Thankfully, neither your race, nor anyone else's matters...

Sure thing. By the way, you do have a good SAT score, it is just on the border for the academic scholarship... but it should get you the interview then you can blow them out of the water. If you do have a chance to up it a little more, all the better.

My son took an SAT prep course that we learned about at a homeschool convention, and as that instructor also advised, he took the test as many times as he could. His score went up each time until it was where he wanted it. It turns out learning how the questions are designed and tricks to answer...

Hi there. You have a lot going for you. My son just matriculated as a freshman, so this is all fresh in my mind. Basically through the whole process, we learned that the 2 big scholarships you can get are the ROTC and the VMI academic scholarship. I would definitely apply for the ROTC...

Thank you very much for this! My son is headed to VMI too- couldn't be happier about the school.

Thanks- it is Air Force ROTC. I read that memo over pretty carefully.... and everything seems to just stop once they send it to the Air Force for waiver consideration. I am at the step after the waiver is denied and I have to go through the rebuttal process. One rebuttal will be easy, the...

I have never even heard of that- I will look it up- thanks!!

Hello, I am new here and hope you all can help with a question: If DODMERB lists two reasons to disqualify and send your file to the waiver review board, is there any way to tell which issue the waiver was denied for, or if it was both? I contacted the technician assigned from DODMERB (this is...