FloridaTish
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My daughter is currently a high school junior and is a member of her high school's NJROTC and she has started to put more thought into joining Army ROTC in college, as it is what is offered at her top choices. However, her vision in her left eye isn't great. As a child she suffered from Strabismus (her left eye turned in a bit) with amblyopia (reduced vision in one eye at a very young age, in connection to her lazy eye). She wore glasses from ages 1 to 12, and while her "lazy eye" strengthened as she wore glasses throughout her childhood and the muscles grew stronger, corrected the issue and her eye is "normal", her vision in her left eye never improved.
She has put serious thought into joining the service after college and when ROTC in college was brought up to her by her NJROTC sergeant, she began to give it more thought. Wanting to see what her vision was currently at and wanting to speak with her eye doctor who she has seen throughout the years, I looked online and saw that for ROTC, if wearing corrective lenses, eyesight must meet certain correction standards.
Her eyesight without glasses is 20/20 in her right eye, 20/200 in her left.
With lenses, the best it can be corrected to in her left eye is 20/70, per her testing yesterday. Would this disqualify her from ROTC entirely? Do they offer waivers? If she can't do ROTC, if she wanted to apply to Officers Candidate School after college, would her vision prevent her from joining?
Otherwise she is in great health, her eye doctor said her eye is healthy as can be, but her vision in her left eye just didn't develop like it should when she was young. When it comes to her eyes, you wouldn’t know she has bad vision unless she mentioned it. On her first marksmanship attempt, where she fired 7 times, each time she hit the center, nearly dead on, without glasses. Her sergeant was impressed and has been talking to her about continuing on with ROTC in college. Over the years, her right eye learned to compensate for the poor vision in her left. Because her poor vision is due to amblyopia at a very young age, she is not a candidate for lasik or PTK surgery, unfortunately. Just glasses to correct with lenses, which only gets her to the 20/70 point in her left eye. She is 20/20 in her right without lenses.
If she were to be eligible, she would like to apply for an AROTC scholarship. She’s worked very hard in high school, takes honors and AP classes, she is a member of the Engineering and Technology Academy cohort at her school, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, plays 1 varsity sport and another city league (slowpitch softball for 8 seasons), works part time, volunteers as a foster mom for a local shelter, has a 4.3 GPA and is in the top 3% of her class as a junior. With an IQ somewhere between 140 and 150, she’s no slouch and likes to be challenged. She is scheduled to take the SAT for the 1st time next weekend, as well as in December. Her practice SAT scores she has been doing for prep, have her averaging a 1250. She is just not a superb standardized test taker. She can be too overly analytical and overthinks things at times, probably to her detriment, in a timed test environment.
Is the ACT required in addition to the SAT or is it more preferred on applications? Are females given the same consideration for scholarships as men? I'm asking that not as s sexist issue, but rather I honestly have no clue if there are actual ratios about how many are given out to men over women. We were looking online to try and find what recent 4 year winner scores and stats were, but there is so much out there, recent info was hard to find. She know she needs to improve on her cardio, as running was never her strong suit, but she can knock out her situps and pushups like a champ!
Sorry to ask so many questions, but there are so many differing things online regarding vision DQ's). Any answers you might have would be greatly appreciated!
She has put serious thought into joining the service after college and when ROTC in college was brought up to her by her NJROTC sergeant, she began to give it more thought. Wanting to see what her vision was currently at and wanting to speak with her eye doctor who she has seen throughout the years, I looked online and saw that for ROTC, if wearing corrective lenses, eyesight must meet certain correction standards.
Her eyesight without glasses is 20/20 in her right eye, 20/200 in her left.
With lenses, the best it can be corrected to in her left eye is 20/70, per her testing yesterday. Would this disqualify her from ROTC entirely? Do they offer waivers? If she can't do ROTC, if she wanted to apply to Officers Candidate School after college, would her vision prevent her from joining?
Otherwise she is in great health, her eye doctor said her eye is healthy as can be, but her vision in her left eye just didn't develop like it should when she was young. When it comes to her eyes, you wouldn’t know she has bad vision unless she mentioned it. On her first marksmanship attempt, where she fired 7 times, each time she hit the center, nearly dead on, without glasses. Her sergeant was impressed and has been talking to her about continuing on with ROTC in college. Over the years, her right eye learned to compensate for the poor vision in her left. Because her poor vision is due to amblyopia at a very young age, she is not a candidate for lasik or PTK surgery, unfortunately. Just glasses to correct with lenses, which only gets her to the 20/70 point in her left eye. She is 20/20 in her right without lenses.
If she were to be eligible, she would like to apply for an AROTC scholarship. She’s worked very hard in high school, takes honors and AP classes, she is a member of the Engineering and Technology Academy cohort at her school, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, plays 1 varsity sport and another city league (slowpitch softball for 8 seasons), works part time, volunteers as a foster mom for a local shelter, has a 4.3 GPA and is in the top 3% of her class as a junior. With an IQ somewhere between 140 and 150, she’s no slouch and likes to be challenged. She is scheduled to take the SAT for the 1st time next weekend, as well as in December. Her practice SAT scores she has been doing for prep, have her averaging a 1250. She is just not a superb standardized test taker. She can be too overly analytical and overthinks things at times, probably to her detriment, in a timed test environment.
Is the ACT required in addition to the SAT or is it more preferred on applications? Are females given the same consideration for scholarships as men? I'm asking that not as s sexist issue, but rather I honestly have no clue if there are actual ratios about how many are given out to men over women. We were looking online to try and find what recent 4 year winner scores and stats were, but there is so much out there, recent info was hard to find. She know she needs to improve on her cardio, as running was never her strong suit, but she can knock out her situps and pushups like a champ!
Sorry to ask so many questions, but there are so many differing things online regarding vision DQ's). Any answers you might have would be greatly appreciated!
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