Quantity of Marine Option Scholarships

Gabetrini - I just read through some of your previous posts. I sure hope you are NOT taking illicit drugs and I also hope you are serious enough about the NROTC MO scholarship that you would not decline it, if you should be awarded one.

I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.

She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.

She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.

Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.

Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:

1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior

2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)

3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.

4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)

5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree

While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!
 
EOD/SEALmom said:
Gabetrini - I just read through some of your previous posts. I sure hope you are NOT taking illicit drugs and I also hope you are serious enough about the NROTC MO scholarship that you would not decline it, if you should be awarded one.

I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.

She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.

She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.

Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.

Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:

1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior

2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)

3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.

4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)

5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree

While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!
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Thank you, I appreciate your insight/advice very much
 
These are the stats provided to my son by the 4th USMC District

Below is a summary of the Early Board stats.

-94 packages submitted/boarded/briefed across 4th Marine Corps District.

-11 selected.

-3 of the 11 selected were from Recruiting Station Frederick.



Average scores:

-PFT: 270

-ACT: 28

-SAT: 1283

-GPA: 3.89 (unweighted)
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11 in one district.

There are 6 districts so somewhere around 60 or so scholarships in early board makes sense to me. I have no first-hand knowledge but anecdotally it makes sense to me.

My DS was selected in the early board several years ago (as was I a million years ago) and while I love the guy, no way was he the crème de la crème (and I certainly wasn't although the standards were a lot lower back when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

Of course, none of this matters in the end. The goal of this phase is to get the application in and see if you are selected in either round. If not, you move on to other options.
 
USMCGrunt said:
11 in one district.

There are 6 districts so somewhere around 60 or so scholarships in early board makes sense to me. I have no first-hand knowledge but anecdotally it makes sense to me.

My DS was selected in the early board several years ago (as was I a million years ago) and while I love the guy, no way was he the crème de la crème (and I certainly wasn't although the standards were a lot lower back when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

Of course, none of this matters in the end. The goal of this phase is to get the application in and see if you are selected in either round. If not, you move on to other options.
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How did you find out that information? Did you ask the NROTC Scholarship Coordinator or is it online?
 
The number of districts is available online. Google "USMC recruiting districts". The 11 came from @1842 a couple posts back.
 
EOD/SEALmom said:
My daughter was awarded a the scholarship at the early board. She is a freshman at a SMC. The Marine Colonel from OCS was at her school for a speech and when my daughter's scholarship was announced the Colonel said there were only ten awarded nationwide.
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That means that your daughter, one of my best friends (Seabees,field ops, winter survival ring a bel?) and myself got two of those. What a small world.
 
Toesha said:
That means that your daughter, one if my best friends (Seabees,field ops, winter survival ring a bel?) got two of those. What a small world.
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Small world indeed! Yes, she was on those trainings. Another Sea Cadet has also won a Marine scholarship - who also on some of those trainings. (She's not on this forum though).
 
EOD/SEALmom said:
Toesha said:
That means that your daughter, one if my best friends (Seabees,field ops, winter survival ring a bel?) got two of those. What a small world.
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Small world indeed! Yes, she was on those trainings. Another Sea Cadet has also won a Marine scholarship - who also on some of those trainings. (She's not on this forum though).
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You mean the third of the fops trio? I guess we turned out all right.
 
EOD/SEALmom said:
Gabetrini - I just read through some of your previous posts. I sure hope you are NOT taking illicit drugs and I also hope you are serious enough about the NROTC MO scholarship that you would not decline it, if you should be awarded one.

I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.

She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.

She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.

Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.

Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:

1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior

2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)

3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.

4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)

5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree

While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!
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Your Daughter's MOI is a full bird Colonel? I thought Captain/Major was the norm.
 
co2020fb said:
EOD/SEALmom said:
Gabetrini - I just read through some of your previous posts. I sure hope you are NOT taking illicit drugs and I also hope you are serious enough about the NROTC MO scholarship that you would not decline it, if you should be awarded one.

I understand your eagerness to know all the facts you can while you wait to hear. I watched my daughter go through it all last year. She had applied to USNA and for the NROTC (Navy) as a high school senior. She had a nom for USNA but was turned down in late March 2016, then turned down for the Navy scholarship on the last board.

She'd always wavered between Navy and Marine corps, but for the scholarship she could of course only choose one path and she chose Navy.

She was a little miffed that the Navy didn't seem to want her last spring (lol), so she opened her second NROTC application - this time choosing Marine Option. She worked with the MOI at her chosen SMC over the summer (by email) and had completed about 70% of her application before she started freshman year - but on the advice of the MOI she did not turn it in until she got to the college. Once at school, she knocked it out of the park on the PFT and everything else. Her MOI, a Colonel wrote her recommendation letter.

Gabetrini, or anyone else reading this thread - do NOT give up hope if you are not awarded a scholarship as a high school senior!!! Go to your chosen college that offers a Marine option, and apply again. Show them you have what it takes IN PERSON, by joining the unit as a college programmer.

Here are the paths to commissioning as a Marine Corps officer, in the order you should apply to each, as I understand it:

1. Apply for the NROTC MO as a high school senior

2. If not awarded as a hs senior, you can almost immediately apply again for the four year national scholarship as a college freshman (as long as you do not yet have 30 college credits)

3. If not awarded as a college freshman, apply both your sophomore and junior years for the two or three year sideload scholarships.

4. If not awarded a sideload by the time junior year is coming to a close - you THEN you apply for PLC (only after that scholarship door is firmly shut)

5. If not awarded the PLC either your junior or senior years, your last hope is to apply to OCS after you've obtained your four year college degree

While you are waiting to hear from this board, always strive to improve yourself. I wish you the best of luck!
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Your Daughter's MOI is a full bird Colonel? I thought Captain/Major was the norm.
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I'm willing bet that at SMCs the norm for MOI is Colonel, due to the larger size of the unit. I'm pretty sure when DS interviewed at Virginia Tech that the MOI, whom we spoke with, was a colonel as well.
 
Yes, the SMCs usually have a Col as an MOI. Nom-SMC schools usually have a Capt or Major.
 
If the MOI is a Colonel, what rank is the Commanding Officer?
 
5Day said:
If the MOI is a Colonel, what rank is the Commanding Officer?
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My mistake - the MOI is a Captain, and the commanding officer is the Colonel. It was the Colonel that wrote my DD's recommendation letter, which is why I thought he was the MOI.
 
It's what happens when you hear about stuff through your kid, not actually being there yourself!
 
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