Recent content by LTLONGAGO

d.mcknight: You make good points, but I believe that the phrase "where you qualify for IS tuition" part of the NROTC application was added after my son applied last summer. When did you apply? It was not there initially, I think Ms. Parker told me, because I asked her specifically about that...

P-Flying 17: PLEASE do not take offense at anything being written in this thread. My son's experiences on email with you and my brief phone conversations with you have all been wonderful. You seem like a very helpful, enthusiastic person. The fact that you come online here to answer...

My husband graduated on an NROTC scholarship from NROTC as business major in 1978, and I was Economics in the eighties - NROTC was pretty flexible about non-technical majors back then, and they did have scholarships back in that ice age. I read an article just yesterday that the Navy usually...

Olderdad - Thank you for sharing your story. I think that you expressed exactly what I didn't want to happen to my son, IF I could help him avoid it without bankrupting our family. I didn't want my son to feel obligated to take the NROTC scholarship to a school that he either hadn't applied to...

Note: I am pretty sure the new NROTC active duty commitment is a minimum of five years (not four anymore), plus, of course any extra years for flight school, nuc school, etc. Some on this forum have been referring to the next eight years, but it is really nine. Service before self. While I...

OOPS - Above, I meant $54K tuition from AFROTC - It would have been $18K per year for three years at an OOS or private school, or four years full tuition at an in-state school. That is the offer they give to 75% of their AFROTC recipients.

Blueridge - Agree with your issues and feel your pain. Had some of the same ones ourselves. Pima - While AFROTC makes its financial commitment to the kids more clear up front and lets them pick their own colleges, I still like the NROTC "package" better. If my son had taken his Type 7...

My husband did look into that new GI bill for dependents a few years ago, but I think that we do not qualify for some reason. I think it had to do with specific years served on active duty (i.e., the fine print). Definitely a good tip for everyone who has served active duty. I probably should...

Still not sure I understand why nephew is not staying on the NROTC wait list through the summer at the school in which he is enrolling? I understand the frustrations, but why not wait it out on the NROTC wait list rolls and see if he can't get the transfer done even as late as August, after the...

Thanks for the update about nephew - Good luck to him! PIMA - Good info on spouse education benefits - and scholarships - THANKS! Makes me realize even more that the military really does offer good financial opportunities to encourage education. And, advice well taken about the 2.5...

I did NROTC a long time ago - What is NROTC Advanced Standing?

Pima - I went to Duke for grad schools and did Cornell NROTC undergrad! Both very expensive, as we know, and my parents could not have afforded such schools either for all four of their kids on a navy officer salary. But, because I did NROTC at Cornell, my parents ended up later offering to...

Some schools offer partial refunds of the housing deposit by a certain date - We got enrollment and partial housing refund from one college yesterday. Not sure if nephew will meet those dates for his colleges however, because he is still waiting. But, again, we are talking peanuts compared to...

OOPS - I was guessing at the answer to the $180K while you were finding it!

Nothing anyone is saying above is untrue, for sure. Back to the initial topic, I do feel bad for the uncle and nephew who started this string, however, because I never saw published information about the details of in-state and out-of-state relative to each individual applicant and how the wait...