In-state university required for NROTC?

[Go Dores!]

@nwlandas - this may be a case where your scholarship coordinator (who works for Navy Recruiting Command) may not have the most current information from Naval Service Training Command (who owns the NROTC program and the scholarship process). NRC serves as a shepherd for applications; NSTC sets policy. I believe with high confidence that you are correct in that an in-state school no longer is required in your 5 choices. The language you provide and the language on the official NROTC wesbite supports that.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Apply

As @Capt MJ correctly points out, contact the experts. pnsc_nrotc.scholarship@navy.mil This email address is very responsive.

You can use the response from them to inform your scholarship coordinator - if it turns out you are correct. I don't think they'll take the word of some anonymous posters, like me, on this forum.

@Capt MJ - I think many of the individual program websites are really, really good. Their challenge is keeping up with the latest policy and having their 'webmaster' (staff LT) update the site.

 

[Capt MJ]

@nwlandas - this may be a case where your scholarship coordinator (who works for Navy Recruiting Command) may not have the most current information from Naval Service Training Command (who owns the NROTC program and the scholarship process). NRC serves as a shepherd for applications; NSTC sets policy. I believe with high confidence that you are correct in that an in-state school no longer is required in your 5 choices. The language you provide and the language on the official NROTC wesbite supports that.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Apply

As @Capt MJ correctly points out, contact the experts. pnsc_nrotc.scholarship@navy.mil This email address is very responsive.

You can use the response from them to inform your scholarship coordinator - if it turns out you are correct. I don't think they'll take the word of some anonymous posters, like me, on this forum.

@Capt MJ - I think many of the individual program websites are really, really good. Their challenge is keeping up with the latest policy and having their 'webmaster' (staff LT) update the site.

I completely agree - having seen the policy volatility over the last several years. It’s difficult to keep the official sites all aligned with the same messaging, hence my endless thumping of the “go to your primary source (live) drum.” Most of those FAQs on unit websites, which makes me think they were all derived from a root document at one point.

 

[CuriousMid1001]

Kinnem - Interesting to see "caps" are back for NROTC units - is there a Navy memo on this?
CuriousMid10 - can you provide a source for your comment that NROTC has the ability to have a school offer in-state tuition to a NROTC scholarship student?
"Something else, the state school does not have to be from your state as NROTC has arrangements for Mids to receive in-state tuition."

This is important info for applicants to understand.
Thanks and Regards

Here is the current additional benefits link. Notes on whether in-state tuition is offered are included.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Additional Benefits

Let me make an adjustment to what I said before: Not every state school offers in state tuition, it varries state by state. Check out the link that Capt MJ put out to see what each school offers.

And when I applied last year, the state school I chose was not in my home state. My recruiter told me not to worry about it as it didn't matter. This may have changed, and sorry if I was wrong leading to confusion!

 

[Capt MJ]

Let me make an adjustment to what I said before: Not every state school offers in state tuition, it varries state by state. Check out the link that Capt MJ put out to see what each school offers.

And when I applied last year, the state school I chose was not in my home state. My recruiter told me not to worry about it as it didn't matter. This may have changed, and sorry if I was wrong leading to confusion!

Change - the one constant in military life!

 

[nwlandas]

Okay, so I have some conflicting information now.

I emailed the scholarship office at pnsc_nrotc.scholarship@navy.mil, and they told me that applying to an in-state university "was a requirement several years ago, but [they] moved away from making applicants list an in-state school in their college choices." My counselor, however, told me that it was indeed a requirement.

I'll email my scholarship counselor with this new information and see what she tells me.

 

[nwlandas]

@nwlandas - this may be a case where your scholarship coordinator (who works for Navy Recruiting Command) may not have the most current information from Naval Service Training Command (who owns the NROTC program and the scholarship process). NRC serves as a shepherd for applications; NSTC sets policy. I believe with high confidence that you are correct in that an in-state school no longer is required in your 5 choices. The language you provide and the language on the official NROTC wesbite supports that.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Apply

As @Capt MJ correctly points out, contact the experts. pnsc_nrotc.scholarship@navy.mil This email address is very responsive.

You can use the response from them to inform your scholarship coordinator - if it turns out you are correct. I don't think they'll take the word of some anonymous posters, like me, on this forum.

@Capt MJ - I think many of the individual program websites are really, really good. Their challenge is keeping up with the latest policy and having their 'webmaster' (staff LT) update the site.

I contacted the experts a couple of days ago and just got a reply back. They said that in-state universities are no longer a requirement.

 

[nwlandas]

Wow, I guess my state is very different. Most of our EA's are October and November and Regular are not until January. Sounds like you have lots of good ideas above though. Good luck to you! Hope it's all a moot point and you get you the NROTC scholarship to your first school and it won't matter.

Thanks for the encouragement. It looks like it won't be a problem after all. I contacted pnsc_nrotc.scholarship@navy.mil, and they told me that they no longer require in-state universities.

 

[Lux15]

My daughter applied for the NROTC scholarship this year and was a winner from the 1st board recently. As far as I can remember, she had to list an in-state public university among the top three in a five-school list. It's a requirement, at least for this year.

 

[kinnem]

My daughter applied for the NROTC scholarship this year and was a winner from the 1st board recently. As far as I can remember, she had to list an in-state public university among the top three in a five-school list. It's a requirement, at least for this year.

Evidently not, since at least two sources, one of them official, have said an in-state school is NOT required this year.

 

[Lux15]

Evidently not, since at least two sources, one of them official, have said an in-state school is NOT required this year.

I'm not sure now, but I remember she did show me the page where she had to place our in-state public among the top three and only then she could proceed to the next section. She would otherwise select all five OOS schools. I guess those whose applications are currently active are in a better position to clarify this.