Interesting read for ROTC

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Found this link on stats earlier. Not advocating for using their service. I know soon enough with all the boards and everything we will have nervous parents and young adults.

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What are My Chances of Getting or Winning an ROTC Scholarship?

This post will talk about each ROTC Scholarship program and the most important elements to consider in order to determine your chances of success.
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Good read. One thing that stood out is the Army ROTC having a minimum 150 APFT score - my son is being told he shalt have a 160 or better. Or maybe they are saying regardless of AFPT score, fitness only counts for 150 of the total points?

The rest wasn't surprising. Navy has high standards because you have to be on top of your game in the middle of the ocean, days from help. The Marines - the few, the proud, the fitness maniacs. Yep, you are going to have a hard time there. Chair Force has a lot of slots, and most careers are technical, so fitness not necessarily #1. Army is easiest? Don't know about that, but maybe they have more officer slots than any other branch?
 
Thanks for sharing. Interesting read/ article links though when I see the charges for some articles on that site for virtually the same info posted in this forum for free if you dig a little, I can’t help but think of that good will hunting quote “ you just dropped 150 grand for an education you could have gotten for a buck fifty in late charges from the public library”😇
 
We began to look into Col. Kirkland’s services when our daughter got an NROTC scholarship on the 1st board several years ago. If you haunt these pages the way I did at the time, nothing much that Mr. Kirkland had to offer was anything all that earth-shattering or much of a revelation. It would be probably pretty useful to an uninformed or less informed parent that wanted to try to give their kid a leg up or just assist them in general. Academy, and to a lesser extent, ROTC applications, can be daunting, especially to the non military background types as well as the those that are just uninformed. He probably could be particularly helpful in terms of AROTC.
 
Miami Redskin said:
We began to look into Col. Kirkland’s services when our daughter got an NROTC scholarship on the 1st board several years ago. If you haunt these pages the way I did at the time, nothing much that Mr. Kirkland had to offer was anything all that earth-shattering or much of a revelation. It would be probably pretty useful to an uninformed or less informed parent that wanted to try to give their kid a leg up or just assist them in general. Academy, and to a lesser extent, ROTC applications, can be daunting, especially to the non military background types as well as the those that are just uninformed. He probably could be particularly helpful in terms of AROTC.
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From what I have gathered here, their greatest value-add is interview prep.
 
OldAFRet said:
Good read. One thing that stood out is the Army ROTC having a minimum 150 APFT score - my son is being told he shalt have a 160 or better. Or maybe they are saying regardless of AFPT score, fitness only counts for 150 of the total points?

The rest wasn't surprising. Navy has high standards because you have to be on top of your game in the middle of the ocean, days from help. The Marines - the few, the proud, the fitness maniacs. Yep, you are going to have a hard time there. Chair Force has a lot of slots, and most careers are technical, so fitness not necessarily #1. Army is easiest? Don't know about that, but maybe they have more officer slots than any other branch?
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The test used for the scholarship is not the APFT, it is a 1 minute push-ups, sit-ups and 1 mile with a max 50 points for each of the 3 areas.
 
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