Nursing AROTC Scholarship.. what if not accepted to school awarded to

OK, We are overjoyed. We just found out we are a winner of a 3 year AROTC scholarship. When we started this process we had 7 schools in mind for School of Nursing. Of the 7, he was accepted to 1 pre-nursing, 1 nursing and the other 5 just to the university but not nursing(2 of the state schools accepted to branches without ROTC so they're not a fit at all).

So the 3 schools awarded to he did not get into any of their nursing schools. 2 of the 3 on the scholarship list he was put into a branch campus without any ROTC.

His primary choice at this time will be a request to transfer. So do we accept to a school in the top 3 that he was not accepted to to keep the scholarship then try to move it?

We will be contacting all schools after April 1 but now we are very fearful of losing the scholarship by having to choose one of the original 7 schools but not 1 of the 3 the ROTC scholarship to.

Is Nursing considered different than other majors as the dream is to be an Army Nurse that this seems like an easy transfer?

Congrats on the scholarship! To answer your question yes nursing is different from the rest of the majors (I'm 90% sure on that someone correct me if I'm wrong). Hopefully one of the ROOs or someone with transfer experience will chime in, but I believe the course of action would be to contact the ROO of the schools where he was accepted into the nursing program and ask if they have a nursing mission/if it is possible to transfer the scholarship.

Nurse scholarships are different. Not all schools that have nursing as a major have a "mission" to turn out a certain number of nurse cadets, though - you'll have to ask the ROO at the school you're interested in. My DD and I walked out of one campus visitation day after we found that out. The ROO didn't tell us there was no place for her there, but we figured she would be better off at a school with a unit that needed and supported nurse cadets.

I'm not 100% sure I understand all of what you're asking but I'll take shot anyway....

#1) I would contact the schools **with** ROTC units that he was accepted to and see if the fact that he has scholarship in hand changes their answer about his acceptance into the Nursing program. At the same time, I would be contacting the ROO at those schools to see if he/she has any pull with Admissions. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

#2) I'm not exactly sure how you go about this but I **guarantee** you that there are units out there that have Nurse Option openings. Based on previous experience, reach out to the University of Portland and see if they have openings. It's a smaller school which 98% of potential cadets probably don't know exists so they are less likely to fill their slots. We had never heard of them when they reached out to my daughter in 2010. Bonus....the school pays room & board for ROTC cadets.

brob said:

Nurse scholarships are different. Not all schools that have nursing as a major have a "mission" to turn out a certain number of nurse cadets, though - you'll have to ask the ROO at the school you're interested in. My DD and I walked out of one campus visitation day after we found that out. The ROO didn't tell us there was no place for her there, but we figured she would be better off at a school with a unit that needed and supported nurse cadets.

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Interesting. I am not sure if we asked that queston specifically.. but one of the schools did say to us they needed 4 Nursing Cadets. That was the only school that specified a number to us.

So have you reached out to any of the schools or ROO"s yet? Do you have any updates?