Chris.jones22
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To receive a 4 year NROTC scholarship do you have to take the writing ACT or can you just do the normal ACT with no writing, and what high school GPA do you need?
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1. Keep in mind that some colleges you apply to may require the writing portion. Do your due diligence.
2. There is no particular GPA required. GPA is just part of the assessment. There is leadership, athletics, etc. Strength in other areas can offset a lower GPA. If you want some idea of a ballpark figure take a look at the USNA class profile. NROTC scores will be in that ballpark, perhaps fractionally higher.
2. There is no particular GPA required. GPA is just part of the assessment. There is leadership, athletics, etc. Strength in other areas can offset a lower GPA. If you want some idea of a ballpark figure take a look at the USNA class profile. NROTC scores will be in that ballpark, perhaps fractionally higher.
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To build on @kinnem, don’t get too hung up on GPA. In fact, you won’t find GPA in the USNA class profile because it’s a highly variable statistic with no standardization across schools. There’s little sure way of knowing how a 4.2 at one school compares to a 3.8 at another school.
Suffice to say, higher is better but not if higher was achieved by taking easy classes and not if higher still puts you below the top tier of your school.
Suffice to say, higher is better but not if higher was achieved by taking easy classes and not if higher still puts you below the top tier of your school.
The trend over the last 3 years has been for colleges to drop the ACT / SAT writing test requirement. Stanford, Michigan, Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown, U. San Diego among many others have all dropped this testing requirement in recent years.
OTOH the University of California still requires it. Check with each individual college.
Note also that most of the highly selective colleges that have dropped the requirement have replaced it with a much more rigorous version fo a writing assessment: submission of an actual graded essay as part of the admissions packet.
So in reality, if you're aiming high and want to be admitted to a selective school, they care intensely about your writing ability and will find one way or another to assess it. You'd be best advised to improve your skill at writing clear, cogent, analytical prose regardless of whether you take the writing test or not... so why not just take the writing test anyway?
OTOH the University of California still requires it. Check with each individual college.
Note also that most of the highly selective colleges that have dropped the requirement have replaced it with a much more rigorous version fo a writing assessment: submission of an actual graded essay as part of the admissions packet.
So in reality, if you're aiming high and want to be admitted to a selective school, they care intensely about your writing ability and will find one way or another to assess it. You'd be best advised to improve your skill at writing clear, cogent, analytical prose regardless of whether you take the writing test or not... so why not just take the writing test anyway?
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The University of California has suspended the ACT and SAT until 2024.
Two sources:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-board-regents-approves-changes-standardized-testing-requirement
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/us/uc-suspends-sat-act-for-admissions-until-2024/index.html#:~:text=(CNN)%20The%20University%20of%20California,announced%20in%20a%20news%20release.