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My DS was awarded a high school ROTC scholarship. The information on the medical board timeline is unclear. I would like to know if my DS is qualified before we accept an admissions offer to a very expensive school with a binding contract May 1st. How can we get ahead of this process? We are...

He wasn't just a basketball player and there aren't too many guys in the world like him. Way to set back relations....

Congrats on your scholarship! And thank you for sharing your experience. I will say that my DS was NOT given discussion points to preview, time to brainstorm, or coached to add personal examples. I wonder how AFROTC Admissions could consider this interview process remotely standardized?

That's good to know. How long was that interview?

So is the USAFA checklist the same as the ROTC checklist? I am confused based on what the above candidate mentioned.

He's applying! He's been doing some research and is pretty excited now about the options and how they compare to the AFROTC program. He's been talking with a buddy who's doing AROTC now. I am so glad I joined this site. AF hubby is deployed at the moment so we can't ask him much and get a...

Thank you for your perspective! I have shared your comments with my son.

Possibly, but that seems very unlikely. The OP noted that the candidate was above average for the Type 1 stats so that would indicate that the interview didn't go so well. The USAFA nomination process/interviews seems like it would be much more accurate than a 45 minute interview with a single...

True....which is why there were so many history majors at the Air Force Academy who just wanted to be pilots. Why work so hard at engineering when you don't need to? It's a different age now. So the AF says it wants highly qualified STEM candidates, but for what purpose? To just be able to...

Got it! Thank you. Yes, I am clueless.

Question: Must a candidate interview at the assigned detachment based on address? Or can you select a detachment? I am seeing all sort of issues with both sides of this answer.

Or how about which state you interview in? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the interviewers at Yale will be very, very different from some schools. If the interview is given that much weight, then ALL the interviewers better be trained on inter-rater reliability.

"This may explain why my DS got a Type 7 Scholarship as well as a USAFA appointment." Wow! There is something wrong with this!

Talked with DS about the Army. He's going to do some extra research, but his initial response was that the Army does not utilize their engineers for engineering. Actually, that's even his concern about the Air Force, but was hopeful the Space Force would have some viable options for him. I...

My son met the Dec boards. He was offered a tier 7, with the option to convert to tier 2 his sophomore year. He already has several full-tuition + scholarships to great engineering schools so the tier 7 is not a competitive offer. Honestly, even a tier 2 at MIT and Yale is about the same...

Fantastic! We will look into it. We are a career AF family so my son doesn't want to attend a service academy for college after having no choice but to live on base for the past decade. I don't blame him. Looking at another service ROTC program might be perfect for him. That way he doesn't...

I have heard that can happen! Thanks for verifying. Congrats to your son.

My son was offered a type 7 AFROTC scholarship last month. However, he already has full academic scholarships for the best in-state schools so he doesn't need to accept it if he stays in-state. He did apply to MIT and Yale, but he would not make enough money in the Air Force to pay back the...