I was recently selected for the 4-Year, Type 7, Foreign Language Major, Air Force ROTC college scholarship. Before I heard this news I had committed to a University that does not have any of the language majors listed on the Foreign Language Majors List on the AFROTC scholarship website. However, the university does have a Russian minor option. My plan was to double major in Philosophy and German, but German is not on that list I mentioned earlier. Would I be able to keep my scholarship if I added on a Russian minor alongside my two other majors, or would it be possible to get German approved as a substitute? I really don't want to lose this great scholarship opportunity, but ultimately my university does not have any of the Foreign Language Majors listed on that site, just a few of them available as minors.
AFROTC Scholarship Predicament...
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My intended major WAS Russian, however, I committed to my university prior to receiving word about the afrotc scholarship, and the school I chose does not have any of those languages as majors, just as minors. A series of unfortunate events I'm afraid and I'm trying to resolve the situation given my school's limitations.
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Talk to the ROTC detachment at your chosen university. They will have the answer for you. Have you already declined your other college options? If not and the ROTC detachment at your chosen school has bad news for you then maybe you could switch. You’d lose your deposit, but in the long run you’d save much more money.
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Just how are you committed to that college? If it's simply that you sent a deposit then you are not committed, but could lose the deposit. If you applied early action and accepted an offer then you are morally committed. In any case, as suggested above, contact the unit at the college to see what options are available
I applied early action and accepted an offer. I also committed to be an athlete on one of their sport's teams. I reached out to the detachment and they forwarded my question to someone who should have an answer for me next week...
Maybe AFROTC can be flexible and designate your Minor in Russian as equivalent to a Major. After all, the relevant point about a foreign language is facility in the spoken and written use of that language -- not the administrative designation of "major" or "minor."
In other words, if you can speak, read, write and comprehend Russian to an advanced level, then that should, in the eyes of the USAF, meet the requirements that they seek.
Another option: can you combine your Minor course of study with several semesters of Project GO? That would give you near-fluency in Russian. Given the deplorable state of most Americans' foreign language skills, that would put you in the top 1% of 1% for non-native speakers of Russian in this country. Surely the USAF can find a way to recognize and reward this degree of attainment.
Vse khoroshego!
In other words, if you can speak, read, write and comprehend Russian to an advanced level, then that should, in the eyes of the USAF, meet the requirements that they seek.
Another option: can you combine your Minor course of study with several semesters of Project GO? That would give you near-fluency in Russian. Given the deplorable state of most Americans' foreign language skills, that would put you in the top 1% of 1% for non-native speakers of Russian in this country. Surely the USAF can find a way to recognize and reward this degree of attainment.
Vse khoroshego!