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Hi,
my name is Nya, and I am a freshman in high school. I wanted to get some first hand information on getting into NROTC. I don't do sports but I am pretty academically oriented. Will that affect me?
I want to do medicine and i met a rep from the navy who made it sound very easy. Is this true?
Any information is helpful.
Thank you so much.
 
Hi,
my name is Nya, and I am a freshman in high school. I wanted to get some first hand information on getting into NROTC. I don't do sports but I am pretty academically oriented. Will that affect me?
I want to do medicine and i met a rep from the navy who made it sound very easy. Is this true?
Any information is helpful.
Thank you so much.

If you want to do medicine in the USN, then NROTC is not the way to do it.

Currently, no NROTC mids are allowed to go to medical school right after college. It may change when you graduate from college in 8 years but just know the NROTC route isn’t a reliable pipeline for medical school.

You can do NROTC, serve your commitment as an officer in the unrestricted line, get out of the USN, and THEN go to medical school. Many have done that path and have had successful careers in medicine.

But for the traditional go to college then medical school path, NROTC doesn’t support at this point.
 
If by "doing medicine" you mean nursing, there is an NROTC scholarship for nursing. However, very few are awarded.
Sports are important. You can get in without sports but most people have sports and the fitness tests are very demanding.
 
kinnem said:
...You can get in without sports but most people have sports and the fitness tests are very demanding...

More demanding that the Fleet, that is for sure. I have seen quite a few NCOs and Officers alike, who would not be able to make weight/tape at the Academy. Boy, howdy.
 
Definitely pick up a sport such as cross country or track that will help you with the running when you eventually do NROTC. Most people in my unit did cross country and no other sports.
 
Can i go to Cornell University with a navy scholarship. Cause I read somewhere that the navy does that?
 
If you go to navy ROTC website, there is a full list of schools and benefits that are offered for navy ROTC scholarship winners.
 
THank you everyone so much everyone. You all have been very helpful.
 
Can i go to Cornell University with a navy scholarship. Cause I read somewhere that the navy does that?
Of course Cornell has to accept you first. Would be nice to be high above Cayuga's waters though.
 
Can i go to Cornell University with a navy scholarship. Cause I read somewhere that the navy does that?
Cornell has NROTC, but I've heard that even with the national scholarship, midshipmen still pay for room and board. If you have the stats for Cornell and you like upstate NY and you're interested a full ride, look at University of Rochester, which has NROTC and will cover room and board 100 percent.
 
If you go to navy ROTC website, there is a full list of schools and benefits that are offered for navy ROTC scholarship winners.
Yes, this is a good start, though the list is incomplete. Check the Room and Board thread in this forum for additional information. (Always check with each individual institution to confirm, too.)
 
I think I understand that this came on your radar due to a conversation with a naval recruiter? Since you have time between now and when you would need to apply, also investigate the Army and AF and what opportunities exist there. There will be changes between now and then, but at least you can get an idea. At my daughters school (Army ROTC), everyone who asked for an education delay to pursue medical school last year received it, while this year not everyone did. So needs of the Army, as well as your grades and overall OML will be the biggest factor. I call on doctors for a living, and I call on 3 doctors regularly who had their medical school paid by the Army (2 of the 3 went through ROTC as well), and are now retired Army and in private practice. I also call on one AF doctor who was not ROTC but the AF paid for medical school And now he is in private practice. The one thing I will say is all 4 said their experiences were incredible. I used to call on a specialist who had been an Army doctor and he doesn’t have much good to say, mainly because he wanted to go into pulmonary medicine and the Army wanted him to be a cardiologist. Needless to say, while he is a little bitter about that, he has done okay for himself too. just another example though that your plans might be different than the military and you will still be obligated.

nursing is changing in all branches, however, Army still has the most spots of the 3 branches out of high school.
 
When dealing with Army and AF ROTC, it is best to talk to the recruiting officer AT the university. Limit talk with active/national guard recruiters because they will most likely try to tie enlistment into your plan, and from experience, don't know all that much about ROTC...
 
+1 rjb18 good point! Yes, for Army and Air Force the battalion or detachment at a university is the best source of information.
 
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