NROTC Scholarship Announcement

Hello Peoples of the Forum!

I applied for the NROTC scholarship program in January and Completed my interview during the first week of February. The packet was fully sent in to the board ( the Local Coordinator advised me of this) on February 13th. I still haven't heard back with a decision.

Does anyone have any idea when they might come back with a decision? NROTC will decide where I go for college (based on funding for me, it will be a heavy weight on my decision).

Thanks for the answers and help!

I can only say that my son did not get a negative reply until mid April. Have plan B ready to go. I assume you applied Navy Option?

kinnem said:

I can only say that my son did not get a negative reply until mid April. Have plan B ready to go. I assume you applied Navy Option?

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Yea, I applied for the NAVY Option. I got a Tier 2 AFROTC scholarship, so that is my Plan B right now. Navy is my number 1 by far.

kinnem said:

I can only say that my son did not get a negative reply until mid April. Have plan B ready to go. I assume you applied Navy Option?

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Kinnem, do you know how heavily the interview factors into the process?

No idea how they score things, other than everything is important but they look at the whole person. You can be a bit weak in one area and a bit stronger in another and still make the cut. There is also the option of enrolling without the scholarship if you can swing that financially somewhere, with additional opportunities to be awarded a scholarship along the way. Failing that you could look at OCC (or whatever Navy calls it) after college. If you were a Marine Option I would also tell you to look into PLC which one does over 2 summers while in college.... and get paid for it. Not great pay, but pay.

For what it's worth, my son had a couple of friends in his freshman year that didn't pick up the Navy sideload scholarship -- and told them there was no chance of picking them up. Both graduated college and are currently SNAs at Pensacola.

Moral of the story... keep all options open.