NavyLady64
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Your DS is eligible to reapply for the 4 year NROTC scholarship as well. He can start the application now, but do not submit it yet. When he reports to his unit, they will likely assist him with completing the application and interview. He will submit it after first semester is completed. This essentially becomes a 3 year scholarship, since it doesn't kick in until the next fall. If he doesn't receive the 4 year scholarship, his unit staff can help him with applying for the 3 year scholarship.
Thanks ProuDad17. This is great advice in that it gives DS an additional scholarship channel. Since the VT Enginieering program is a 5 year program, do you know if he could use it the full 4 years?[/QUOTE]
My DD is NROTC and VT engineering (Aerospace & Ocean Engineering - 5 yr). She does have a 4-yr scholarship but in your MIDN 2/C year (and of junior year), you apply for an additional one-year NROTC scholarship which, from what we have been told, is nearly universally granted by the Navy unless your unit CO has any doubts about his path to commission (which, by junior year, they should not). If you have any questions about the Corps at VT, feel free to post or private message. Also, she has a number of buds who stuck it out and eventually earned side scholarships. BTW, my DD was waitlisted at USNA, but VTCC was her #1 NROTC choice (awarded in December of senior year). She did start the USNA re-application process but withdrew it in her first semester at VT and just decided she loved the Corps and the opportunities she would get to work on advanced research being at a PhD granting institution. Nothing against the USNA but she just decided that, upon reflection during the re-app process, it *felt* like she was having to sell herself to a "school" -- when the Navy had already long ago already accepted her and put her on a path to the fleet. Now, after her first year, she has orders to Naval Station San Diego and she will be heading to CORTRAMID - the same Navy training for 3/C MIDs that every single other MID in the nation gets - including the ones at USNA. So, like @kinnem says, sometimes another path opens up. Good luck to you and your DS - he sounds like an incredible young man (good job, Dad!). Our nation is in good hands if these are the young people heading out to serve. ...and GO HOKIES!!