AFROTC Type 7 Schools

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rotcmom2015

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Which schools will pay the difference between the in-state rate and the out-of-state rate for the AFROTC Type 7 scholarship winners? I know many of them will pay/help with on-campus housing, however I am looking for the schools that will help out with tuition.
 
rotcmom2015 said:
Which schools will pay the difference between the in-state rate and the out-of-state rate for the AFROTC Type 7 scholarship winners? I know many of them will pay/help with on-campus housing, however I am looking for the schools that will help out with tuition.
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Michigan tech in houghton michigan
 
You can't take a type 7 to an out of state school even if the school is offering to pay the difference. If you go out of state you have to convert it to a 3 year type 2, so you'll lose a year of funding from the AF.
 
Right. However I read that some schools, i.e. Boston University, will help out the first year and then make up the difference for the remaining three. Just wondering what other schools do that.
 
You should have your DS/DD check with their scholarship coordinator, but this is one of those things where the school can't just make up the difference, they have to offer them in state tuition in order to use the 4 year type 7 there. There are some that do that, but there is a difference between that and a school offering extra scholarship money in the eyes of ROTC. Just making sure that's on your radar when you're searching this.
 
Look at the ROTC room and board sticky here to see some options.

For example, TAMU will charge IS if you get 1K in merit from them. If my memory serves me correctly, being part of the Corps will get you that 1K. In turn, AFROTC will allow you to use that type 7 even if you don't live in Texas.

Personally, you are chasing the bucks, and that does not always equates to being happy at college.

Plus, you are impo a little late in the game from an application aspect for any college that offers that IS for ROTC students. On top of that AFROTC scholarships are not 4 yrs., it is 2+2. You need to get selected for SFT to get those final 2 yrs. What will you do if next year you decide you don't want to be in AFROTC, but love the school...how will you now pay OOS? What if not selected for SFT and they disenroll you...how do you pay that OOS or R&B if they only give a discount to ROTC students?

I would disagree with one point that Non Ducor stated. It is not the scholarship coordinator typically that can answer the question about being charged IS or OOS, it is the Bursar. Now for me, I would skip both of them at 1st and contact the det. directly to ask that question. They probably have AFROTC type 7 within the unit and will know if they converted to a type 2 3 yr.
 
Pima said:
Look at the ROTC room and board sticky here to see some options.

For example, TAMU will charge IS if you get 1K in merit from them. If my memory serves me correctly, being part of the Corps will get you that 1K. In turn, AFROTC will allow you to use that type 7 even if you don't live in Texas.

Personally, you are chasing the bucks, and that does not always equates to being happy at college.

Plus, you are impo a little late in the game from an application aspect for any college that offers that IS for ROTC students. On top of that AFROTC scholarships are not 4 yrs., it is 2+2. You need to get selected for SFT to get those final 2 yrs. What will you do if next year you decide you don't want to be in AFROTC, but love the school...how will you now pay OOS? What if not selected for SFT and they disenroll you...how do you pay that OOS or R&B if they only give a discount to ROTC students?

I would disagree with one point that Non Ducor stated. It is not the scholarship coordinator typically that can answer the question about being charged IS or OOS, it is the Bursar. Now for me, I would skip both of them at 1st and contact the det. directly to ask that question. They probably have AFROTC type 7 within the unit and will know if they converted to a type 2 3 yr.
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You're right Pima, the Bursar's office and Det in question is the place to ask about that question. I added the scholarship coordinator bit because I'm 99% sure that it is still a rule that type 7 can only be used at colleges where the student is offered IS tuition, but it's possible that something could have changed since I activated mine 4+ years ago so AFROTC HQ is who could verify that rule for them.
 
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