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5 year Scholarship Just talked to Air Force Captain at Baylor and he confirmed that the Air Force routinely pays five year scholarships for certain majors. He even said that the process is pretty seamless and the detachment takes care of the paperwork. He also said that 40-50% of the ROTC...

My son will be attending Baylor on a four year AFROTC scholarship starting this fall. With the addition of a Baylor merit scholarship, the total package is worth $100k. We plan on paying for the additional $20k+ neccessary to complete the cost of a degree ourselves. At orientation last...

$180K Scholarship What school is your daughter going to? I'd like to know what university is charging $45,000 a year in tuition and fees.

Room and Board You mentioned scholarship dollars for room and board. Since the AFROTC scholarship awarded my son does not cover room and board, I assume that you have additional scholarships (merit, etc.) covering these expenses or that the Army does cover room and board. I would have...

Physical Fitness Test for AFROTC The physical fitness exam for the AFROTC must be the same as the one used for AROTC. It consists of pushups, situps and a 1.5 mile run.

ROTC Scholarship I was under impression scholarship was to used on for tuition and enrollment related fees. There will certainly bu unused scholarship dollars left over each year, but have been told that any "overage" cannot be used for room, board, etc. Anyone had a scholarshiop and used...

My son was awarded a Air Force ROTC scholarship that will pay up to $15,000 for tuition and fees each year. While reading some of the fine print detailing information on the scholarship, it states that paperwork is to be submitted after 45 days each semester to reimburse expenses. My...

According to information on the ALO slideshow on the USAFA, statistics for the last four classes are: Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 Qualified 2,481 2,305 1,928 2,000 Offers 1,629...

Taken from the USAFA website, citing statistics from the class of 2009: Applicants –9601 Candidate Pool – 6809 Qualified Candidates – 1928 Offers of Admission – 1746 Total Admitted – 1390 As you can see, from the pool of qualified candidates, almost 91% got an offer of admission...

Not so fast... I was under the impression that anywhere from 200-400 of those offered appointments would refuse them for some reason and futher appointments would be offered to alternate candidates as they became available. I thought that the final pool of qualified candidates with nominations...

No good music in the 80's????????????? A flock of Seagulls, Haircut 100, Milli Vanilli, Wall of Voodoo, the Vapors, Kajagoogoo, Nena... The list goes on and on...

Different strokes.... While we all have different tastes in music and I'm sure there are a few songs I love that would drive others crazy, I'd much rather hear fingernails across a chalkboard than to listen to I'd Really Love To See You Tonight by Dan & Coley. The single song that literally...

Fishing for students.... The University of Portland, and other schools, must have access to a list of scholarship award winners and sends out requests to attend their schools in an unsolicited fashion. I had never heard of U of P until I saw another post on this website a few weeks ago...

ROTC Scholarship An interesting sideline to the awarding of my son's scholarship. We discovered that the scholarship was awarded on March 9th by visting the ROTC application tracker website (something we did daily). Yesterday we received an offer from the University of Portland addressed to...

Appointments I asked my ALO last week if he had heard any news on a possible appointment for my son and he responded... I have not heard anything from the Academy. I do know that all of the appointments have not been offered as of yet. I'm not sure what percent of the appointment offers...