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For all of you still waiting, I soooo feel your pain! But, I wanted to briefly share what has happened to DS in the year since he got TWE's from both NROTC and USNA... The rejection from NROTC came April 1, followed by the TWE from USNA on April 7. It was devastating, but DS recovered and...

I REALLY don't want to be a downer or discourage anyone here, but I want to encourage all of you who are waiting to hear on ROTC scholarships to apply for every other non-military scholarship out there. The funding is diminishing AND more people are staying in these programs. The result is...

Are college programs scholarships submitted to the same board that awards scholarships under the NROTC Scholarship Program? Does anyone no what happens to awarded scholarship money if the recipient drops the program? In a nutshell, DS was 3 Q'd with 3 nominations to USNA last year. NROTC...

DS just started NROTC and has aleady been assigned a "billet"...whatever that means!! I'm sure this is a good thing and that he was selected for his leadership abilities. Can anyone explain this to me? I am presuming that a billet is a job of some sort or another. Does everyone start at the...

We just got notification from NROTC that DS was not selected for a scholarship. I can't even imagine how that happened, unless it means that USNA and NROTC really do talk to each other and an appointment is on the way. I'm hoping and praying for that! Any of you who have received...

On Friday my son and I attended "Vandal Friday" at the University of Idaho. This campus actually has an outstanding engineering school. At any rate, DS put it on his list of school for NROTC in the event he doesn't get an appointment. We went to Vandal Friday, just to give ourselves something...

I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered already... My son is 3Q'd and has 3 nominations to USNA. He completed his NROTC "back up" plan way back in September. We haven't heard anything from anyone. He contacted the Chief he was working with on NROTC and he basically said, "Give it a...

Okay...I never considered myself OCD before, but find myself wanting to check in on the Dodmerb site several times a day. Does anyone know if they do one general update each day, or is it updated as people are given the 'nod'? Kat