IF YOU QUIT DURING/AFTER FRESHMAN YEAR, what happens to that tuition?

NROTC_27 said:
Just curious if dropping prior to sophomore year happens often - do some students accept the scholarship, go through freshman year and decide it isn’t for them in order to get a year of tuition for free??
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As others have stated, a lot do end up dropping, although I do not know of any who applied for the scholarship just to get a free year of college. One of DS' good friends ended up dropping after the first year. It was a very difficult decision for her, but was her best option for her circumstances. I think of this as similar to students changing their major. You get into studying a subject you think you are interested in and find it is not for you, so you shift to another path. I've seen statistics that somewhere between 50-80% of college students change their major at least once.
 
We had several drop from my unit after freshmen year recently when they were denied a Major Tier change from 1/2 to 3. Otherwise good midshipmen who were top performers and motivated, dropped because the Navy wouldn't let them major in what they loved. It was over half of the Navy options in that class too...
 
Ivy22 said:
We had several drop from my unit after freshmen year recently when they were denied a Major Tier change from 1/2 to 3. Otherwise good midshipmen who were top performers and motivated, dropped because the Navy wouldn't let them major in what they loved. It was over half of the Navy options in that class too...
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Wow... that I can see from.both sides. Clearly one wants to pursue studies in an area they are really interested in to make learning what it should be.. enjoyable. It also seems pretty straightforward you have to pick a tier. So I wonder (because you said it was half the NOs) how much of that was a scenario of the tier choice was too hard/nothing like they thought it would be coming out of high school/etc and how much was ill switch my tier once I get in because I really want to do poli science but they don't take many of those...
 
Thank you for all of the feedback - the reason I was asking is that someone posted on a FB group that their daughter received an NROTC scholarship, but had no plans to serve active duty. Some people that apply for these scholarships do not seem to understand the commitment. I also agree that the scholarship applications are a lot of work if you are not truly interested in ROTC. Still waiting patiently (or trying my best!) . . .
 
uscorpsmanwife said:
Wow... that I can see from.both sides. Clearly one wants to pursue studies in an area they are really interested in to make learning what it should be.. enjoyable. It also seems pretty straightforward you have to pick a tier. So I wonder (because you said it was half the NOs) how much of that was a scenario of the tier choice was too hard/nothing like they thought it would be coming out of high school/etc and how much was ill switch my tier once I get in because I really want to do poli science but they don't take many of those...
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I think it was a lot of the first type, where they got to college and found out they actually didn't like STEM as much as they liked it in high school, and discovered they really liked a non-STEM subject that they previously didn't know much about because it wasn't taught in high school. They most likely had the scores to compete for a Tier III major as high school applicants too if they knew a year earlier they wanted to.
 
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