AROTC Scholarship Confusion

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I’m the parent of a rising college junior. He joined AROTC at his university during freshman year. Didn’t get all of his scholarship materials in until the beginning of sophomore year.

He has heard nothing about the
scholarship. Which between you all and me, is most likely on him somewhat. But he did contract at the end of this year.

My assumption is that he did not get a two-year scholarship. Which is fine. We are fortunate to able to afford his school. What I’m frustrated about is the lack of communication from the ROTC side to him. I mean a simple “you have not been awarded a scholarship” email would be fine. But he has received nothing. And the main contact does not response to emails or phone calls from him.

I’ve ended up here due to the lack of communication to my son and the fact that I’m not going to be the parent who calls on my adult kid’s behalf.

Is my assumption correct? And is the lack of clear communication representative of the Army? Not sure if the pandemic impacted anything either. Basically, I’m not sure now how any of it works.

Thanks I’m advance to any and all who can shed some light on this for me.
 
Your DS was probably told he is contracted non scholarship.
the ROO probably told him this.

parents normally arent told the truth by the student. Call the ROO-you’ll get the full story I bet.
 
Yes, he was very likely contracted non-scholarship. You can have your son get a copy of the contract, DA Form 597 to verify ( DA 597-3 is the scholarship contract). There is no ROTC scholarship application for campus based scholarships. The ROTC Program conducts a scholarship board to develop an OML (Order of Merit List), then the scholarships if any are awarded by OML order. The ROO creates an application for the selected cadets via our Cadet Command database. There is nothing for the cadet to submit. Unfortunately, there were not many scholarship offers at all for those in Mission Set 23 (those graduating in FY 2023). Therefore there are no “you have not been awarded a scholarship”. Cadets do not have a scholarship nor should expect one, unless they are given a scholarship offer letter by Cadet Command through the programs PMS and ROO.
 
MohawkArmyROTC said:
Yes, he was very likely contracted non-scholarship. You can have your son get a copy of the contract, DA Form 597 to verify ( DA 597-3 is the scholarship contract). There is no ROTC scholarship application for campus based scholarships. The ROTC Program conducts a scholarship board to develop an OML (Order of Merit List), then the scholarships if any are awarded by OML order. The ROO creates an application for the selected cadets via our Cadet Command database. There is nothing for the cadet to submit. Unfortunately, there were not many scholarship offers at all for those in Mission Set 23 (those graduating in FY 2023). Therefore there are no “you have not been awarded a scholarship”. Cadets do not have a scholarship nor should expect one, unless they are given a scholarship offer letter by Cadet Command through the programs PMS and ROO.
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Appreciate your input. I understand it is unlikely there will be 2 or 3 year campus based AROTC scholarships this Fall semester. Do you know or expect this is a function of the federal budget process, and whether this could change next semester when/if the budget resolution process is resolved? Thanks for any insight
 
glen said:
Appreciate your input. I understand it is unlikely there will be 2 or 3 year campus based AROTC scholarships this Fall semester. Do you know or expect this is a function of the federal budget process, and whether this could change next semester when/if the budget resolution process is resolved? Thanks for any insight
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It mostly has to do with the Cadet Command's overall commission mission decreasing over the next few years and scholarship budgets being significantly reduced.
 
MohawkArmyROTC said:
It mostly has to do with the Cadet Command's overall commission mission decreasing over the next few years and scholarship budgets being significantly reduced.
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Seems like quite an unfortunate circumstance. I presume this affects the number of active duty officers commissioning as well?
 
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