Recent content by IrishBrewer

The Army really needs to change their OML scoring such that it is "set in stone" for each class either in their freshman or sophomore years. Otherwise, they are telling cadets the things they should focus on and then when they are nearing graduation, the rules get changed on them which doesn't...

I think my DD could be the poster child for the do just about everything to have a great college experience while in ROTC. She considered the USMC but opted not to move forward with that alternative as she was worried that she would not get the full college experience that she was after. I do...

Absolutely! This is the advice I have been giving everyone after having gone through the DQ ordeal. She was a junior in HS when she filled out the ROTC application on her own so if I had had a chance to review it, I might have been able to prevent that headache. However at that time, other...

Thank you. FYI, her team and Battalion are posting about it too (not the DODMERB history) so all that info is out there. I've already shared the DODMERB asthma hurdle with others on the forum in hopes of helping them out.

File this one under the "Is it worth it?" column. My daughter is a rising MSIV and part of the Blue Mountain Battalion in Central PA attending Dickinson College. However, she almost didn't get there having DQ'd while navigating through the DODMERB process. She had used an prescribed inhaler a...

It had to do with her rate of exhalation. She did not have enough volume fast enough. I'm certain that she could have passed the test if she was better informed on what to do.

My daughter got an asthma DQ also and had to take the MCT test as part of the waiver process. How that happened is a bit of a long story but the short story is that she never had asthma to begin with. One thing I wanted to mention is that the technician who administered the test did not do a...

This is very good advice. My DD is an athlete and in pretty top shape when she first started rucking but she didn't want to seem like a slacker so started with the max rucking weight from the get-go and also rucked at a pretty brisk pace. Didn't help that although she is strong, she's very...

I get your point, but also, I don't think we want our Nuclear engineers skirting by with a 2.0 GPA either. Those students need to be at the top of their game as much as anyone, if not more so. :D :D

You might want to tell them that virtually no other University does it like that. Most know Uncle Sam has the best credit rating of any of their clients. We get invoices from our daughter's college but other than that, they don't hound her about it because they know she's on a full tuition...

My DD's college, Dickinson in Carlisle PA, just announced a change from mixed/hybrid to all remote classes for this fall. I don't think she has gotten official word yet but she doubts that they would have any regular in-person Army ROTC obligations because it just wouldn't be practical to have...

My daughter is a distance track athlete and she focused on D1 schools that she wanted to go to in her ROTC application and got selected for her top 3. However, once she started talking to the D1 coaches, she got a sense that D1 athletics and ROTC would not play very well together. As others...

I can't agree with this more. My DD completed the questionnaire on her own and out of an abundance of caution "self diagnosed" and it nearly cost her the scholarship. That would have been a $300,000 mistake had we not gotten things straightened out.

I would say accept the 4-year at Princeton. It may not be a sure thing, but I think it is a good bet that if that doesn't come through, the transfer will work. My daughter had a difficult decision to make on a transfer as well. She wanted to do varsity athletics + ROTC but it wasn't until she...

My daughter's school disqualifies students who get an AROTC scholarship from their merit-based scholarships but they do give a $7500/year room and board scholarship to ROTC scholarship recipients which covers about half of these expenses. I think they do this because their merit scholarships...