AFROTC Type 2 and 7 scholarships upgraded to Type 1 for ivy league

mbsaf said:
Dear AFROTC Scholarship Designee,
We are delighted to inform you that AFROTC has established a new 4-year HSSP scholarship opportunity for all 2019-2020 HSSP scholarship cycle designees. All 2019-2020 HSSP scholarship cycle designees who are accepted to, and choose to attend, one of the following sixteen schools starting in the 2020-2021 academic year will have their Type 2 or Type 7 AFROTC scholarship offers upgraded to a Type 1 offer:

Princeton UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard UniversityYale University
Columbia UniversityStanford University
University of ChicagoUniversity of Pennsylvania
Duke UniversityNorthwestern University
Brown UniversityJohn Hopkins University
Rice UniversityUniversity of Notre Dame
Cornell UniversityVanderbilt University

To qualify for this upgrade you must:
1) Accept your scholarship and upload your Letter of Admission (LOA) to one of these schools no later than 31 May 2020 through your online account at https://wings.holmcenter.com, and complete all scholarship checklist items prior to arriving at school for the Fall 2020 term,
AND​
2) Meet all scholarship activation requirements no later than the end of the Fall 2020 term, including obtaining a qualified Department of Defense Medical Examination Review Board (DODMERB) physical exam, meeting AFROTC height/weight (Body Mass Index (BMI)) standards, maintaining full-time college student status, and being a U.S. citizen.
Please be advised that if either of the above conditions is not met in the above timeframes, the HSSP Scholarship upgrade offer will be rescinded. If at any time a cadet disenrolls or transfers from any of these sixteen schools to a school not on the list for any reason, the HSSP Scholarship upgrade offer will be rescinded and will revert to the original scholarship type (Type 2 or Type 7) offered. To retain the scholarship, cadets must maintain all AFROTC scholarship standards throughout their academic career, to include G.P.A., physical fitness, and medical requirements, per their contract with AFROTC. Note this scholarship offer is an upgrade to your current HSSP offer, be it Technical, Non-Technical, or Foreign Language.
If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email your HSSP scholarship technician; if your last name begins with A-K, please email afrotc.hssp2@us.af.mil; if your names begins with L-Z, please email afrotc.hssp3@us.af.mil. You may also call at 866/423-7682 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time.
Congratulations again on your selection as a 2019-2020 HSSP scholarship cycle designee. We look forward to seeing you this fall at whichever AFROTC Detachment you choose to attend.
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It's too bad that this was sent after the admissions deadline. Also, why these schools only? Why not other comparable schools like Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Washington U, ect.
 
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AROTCPMS said:
It's too bad that this was sent after the admissions deadline. Also, why these schools only? Why not other comparable schools like Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Washington U, ect.
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Might be because they have a large pool there. Also its not in the college locator so that might be something.
 
AROTCPMS said:
It's too bad that this was sent after the admissions deadline. Also, why these schools only? Why not other comparable schools like Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Washington U, ect.
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Dartmouth only has Army ROTC; location is too remote for any other cross-town AFROTC program. Similarly, Cal Tech only has cross-town at USC - traveling from Pasadena to downtown LA USC campus is just not realistic/feasible for most. WashU probably just didn't make the cut-off for "elite" status.
 
Does anyone have a sense if they will continue this program in the future? Perhaps waiting to see how many convert at these 16 schools? Seems like a pretty big announcement to have as a one and done type offer.
 
mbsaf said:
Another reason could be that the NROTC covers the full tuition for all scholarship recipients. So, if someone got into one of these schools and had to choose between NROTC and AFROTC, the choice is clear, and AFROTC was probably losing these top tier students.
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we are sitting at that decision point now. I will say NROTC looking like a much better financial choice.
 
Any advance insider info if this offer will be made this year? My DS has a type 7 and just got a Notre Dame acceptance this week...fingers crossed!
 
Counselor/Dad said:
Any advance insider info if this offer will be made this year? My DS has a type 7 and just got a Notre Dame acceptance this week...fingers crossed!
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You might want to run that question by the PAS at Notre Dame. He may have some advance knowledge, and he would also be the one who has an interest in doing what he can to "recruit" your son. He might have scholarship resources available to him, for example.
 
Counselor/Dad said:
Any advance insider info if this offer will be made this year? My DS has a type 7 and just got a Notre Dame acceptance this week...fingers crossed!
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Recommend per last year’s instructions that you upload his ND letter of acceptance into the portal and follow the guidance of @franknd above. Good luck and please keep the board posted on what you find.
 
Yes. AFROTC still allows you to upgrade your 4-year type 7 or 4-year type 2 to a 4-year type 1 at a Tier 1 school.
 
The federal budget for the military was just reauthorized with an extra $40 billion over last year, so….
 
Does this policy of the upgrade from type 7 to type 1 for one of these schools (Duke for example) still hold true for this year? We didn’t get a letter saying that. Thanks.
 
After I submitted my application, I had a few Ivy AFROTC reps email me, which outlined the Type 1 upgrade. I am humbled and fortunate to have received the NROTC National Scholarship already, which covers all four years.
 
Can vouch for UChicago! my type 7 got upgraded to type 1 so USAF paying for $320k worth of school. Go for UChicago, their veteran program (#1 in the country) and ROTC programming are great, and the person in charge of everything military-related has huge sway in the uni.
 
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