jiller,
Our DS was like yours. UNCCH and NYU Sterns offered DS admission with merit. UNCCH was IS, NYU OOS.
Here is the OMG... he opened applications in the summer of his jr. yr. never submitted/completed the process.
Feb. they offered him admittance, said We know you didn't meet the admissions board, BUT....
With research we found out his AFROTC scholarship was a reason for the offer, but also he was an NMSF.
We thought it was a hoax, sign here and you are IN. We were waiting for the pay X amount, etc. AFROTC sat on their admissions, and those 2 items together got him the IN. To our financial dismay he opted to go to another college.
This is why I am saying the cart before the horse comment. He has no clue yet what these colleges will offer.
Why I am saying PSAT is not to be seen as a pre-cursor for the SAT. It can give you more financial freedom when you are rubbing pennies together to pay for college.
I am not going to walk away agreeing with a comment that the Navy lost a great leader because they didn't pay for their college.
To me a great leader is someone that never gives up, never gives in. They will accomplish the mission. Not going NROTC because of a scholarship to attend college for your personal desires, says you are not ALL IN.
You are IN for you, not me, the taxpayer who relies on the military to defend this great country.
What bothered me the most with the OP, was all or nothing. Give me a scholarship or I won't serve, Navy's lost. We have all stated there is more than 1 way to skin this cat.
I am not able to wrap my mind around the fact I feel this is more about paying for college and NROTC is a way, than serving in the military.
ROTC isn't SA, but it isn't a cake walk either. You don't get to say I don't want to be assigned to Norfolk because that is on the East coast and I want Hawaii.
You serve at their needs. If you can't get that ROTC is also a 4 yr crap shoot for career fields, yet you will serve 365 days a yr AD, maybe it is best you part ways now when you are in HS.
If you are having a tizzy about them saying they will only pay for X school and it is number 5 on your list...just imagine when they give you your #3 career list and assigned to the crap base for 3 yrs?
Sorry, but somebody has to finally say it, and stop coddling. You will serve at their needs, not YOUR desires or needs. You will salute sharply when you get a crap assignment.
You are a cog in the system.
You as a HS student is a dime a dozen. You actually are a liability when it comes to the debt/credit ratio.
You can take your scholarship for 1 yr and walk after that yr.
The idea that people think the military isn't financially savvy when it comes to scholarships like a Fortune 500 with their discretionary budget is mind boggling
They are probably the best in that case. They have multiple layers of interviewing.
If I was a BGO or an interviewer, sorry, but the attitude of navyFB52, and are told am told they aren't going to go OCS or enlisted, with the comment:
I'd like to believe the Navy wouldn't pass that up just to save a few thousand tax-payer dollars. After all, isn't that the goal of the Navy ROTC program? To produce the best Naval Officers possible
would give me pause.
Sorry NavyFB52, but that is true. I have a choice 1 slot, 2 applicants.
One says if I don't get the scholarship I will go enlisted and use the GI bill to pay for college. I will serve in the Navy, enlisted will just make a better officer because I now have both sides of the fence.
Second says to me that type of comment from my quote. I am not going with them.