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Coming in at #4... El Cid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R8HGsbI4QY&t=1m59s

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It's always a nail biter. My roommate was sworn into his contract the day after his exams ended when we were freshmen. Pretty much the same thing happened to another friend of mine. Both got 3 year scholarships. Up until then though all they got were soft assurances that they would...

Four of The Citadel's five barracks have been re-built since 1999. Watt's barracks (my own) is now the second oldest. I won't say it's an impressive facility. Most of the time the climate control works in a decent manner. Other than that the facilities are pretty nice. Indoor pool... but...

Going to The Citadel is a huge financial commitment... and I understand your trepidation. I'll try and break this down into a few different sections. Transfer scholarship to The Citadel If this is something that you seriously want to do then you should be contacting The Citadel's Admissions...

I have no idea but I would contact the admissions team and ask them. They're in charge of the pre-knob program. http://www.citadel.edu/root/admissions-contact

This is going to be the best advice. Traditions are similar but vary widely between the two. It really comes down to if you want to be near a large-ish city or not. And also if you handle hot or cold well. I don't know how hot it gets at VMI but you can expect Hell Week (Military...

Take the SAT's. Take them early and often. Practice good test taking skills. Make it a game. Push that score onward and upward. That being said The Citadel accepts a larger applicant pool than VMI. If they both start with the top 1000 or so, VMI only accepts around 400 but The Citadel...

Charleston, especially with its up-and-coming reputation, is the best selling point that The Citadel has. (Having the College of Charleston right down the road is another.)

Very few of my classmates who had strong (over 2.5) GPAs and the drive missed out on getting some sort of ROTC contract/scholarship. Most people seemed to get 3 year who wanted them. The Army usually gets the lion's share of people so there seem to be more 2 and 1 year deals there. The...

I am a graduate of The Citadel. I was not a contract military cadet but I was in the NROTC (Marine Option) program for all four years. The Citadel is a great school, with great engineering departments, in a great (port!) city. The Citadel is jokingly referred to as the "Marine" academy...

I also wanted to talk about the honor system. As far as I know The Citadel's honor system is as rigorous as any other. The Citadel no longer practices the "drumming out" ceremony for several reasons both practical and dogmatic. The practicality comes in when it seems between 20-30...

I wouldn't sweat it. You need to come up with a decent SAT score. At El Cid I had a roommate with a 2.5GPA in college and a 950SAT score. I mean it might have been a slow admissions year and things have stepped up in recent years but I was accepted in 2001 with a 3.3GPA and a 1370SAT score...

First, The Citadel, The. :wink: That's a great stat on Flag Officers. Probably VMI produces more per graduate but the raw score is on the side of The Citadel. I pretty much came here to talk about this, the "civilian" population on The Citadel campus during the day is pretty much...

Sweet jesus no. I'm a southerner, born and bred, and as a graduate of The Citadel I think the coldest temperature I was exposed to on campus was in the high 20's or low 30's. On the flip side the southern heat is pretty brutal on cadets from up north. They just don't know what to do with...