NROTC Question

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Hello, I am almost finished with my NROTC Application. There is a part which requires an applicant to go to their local recruiter and sign a few documents like the understanding statement and the drug statement with a recruiter. When I search to locate a recruiter, it shows a regional Officer Recruiter and an Enlisted Recruiter. The Enlisted Recruiter is significantly closer to my home. Can I sign the NROTC documents at either office?
 
KingLear said:
Hello, I am almost finished with my NROTC Application. There is a part which requires an applicant to go to their local recruiter and sign a few documents like the understanding statement and the drug statement with a recruiter. When I search to locate a recruiter, it shows a regional Officer Recruiter and an Enlisted Recruiter. The Enlisted Recruiter is significantly closer to my home. Can I sign the NROTC documents at either office?
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I am in no way an expert, but will pass on that my daughter signed all of those required forms with the officer who did her interview. Print out and take all the necessary forms and bring them (along with your resume) and this may save you a trip!
 
LTMOM said:
I am in no way an expert, but will pass on that my daughter signed all of those required forms with the officer who did her interview. Print out and take all the necessary forms and bring them (along with your resume) and this may save you a trip!
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Yes, likewise my DS printed the NROTC forms, brought them with him, and signed / handed them in during the officer interview at a local college. Good luck to you, LTMOM's daughter, and all candidates. Very respectfully, Hermie, Sr.
 
My DS had a public notary sign and stamp them. Forms were accepted without issue.
 
If not bringing the paperwork to the officer interview then use the officer recruiter. Your local recruiter in the strip mall generally knows nothing of NROTC.,, or at least not much as that's not what they're trained for.
 
DS signed them at the enlisted recruiting office. His officer interview was over the phone. They had to get the Chief involved because the other guys didn't know what to do. The Chief knew exactly what to do and it only took 5 minutes. He has also been a great resource for DS as questions have come up.

Be prepared for a recruiting pitch.
 
I just had to sign the forms in front of my high school principal and have him sign them. If you are in high school that is the easiest way to do it
 
Go to the Officer Selection Office. If that is not plausible or possible in a timely manner, I recommend calling the NROTC Marine officer handling your application. Talk to him or her. If the NROTC officer determines the recruiting station to be the most convenient location and schedules a meeting there in coordination with the recruiters, you can get the documents signed and even the interview administered there - as was the case with me.

As far as I know, the previous posts are correct. Some recruiting stations might be prepared for it and have the documents ready at hand, but I would talk to the NROTC officers to be safe.
 
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I have another question regarding the NROTC application process. I hope it's okay if I post it here. My DS has submitted his NROTC application and is just waiting for his officer interview which is scheduled for the second week in January. On the application, they have you list your top five schools. He was just recently accepted into Harvard early action and that is his first choice if he decides to go the NROTC route. He also recently received an LOA from the US Naval Academy. Does he still need to apply to those other 4 colleges for the NROTC scholarship? If he is lucky enough to earn a scholarship, he would use it at Harvard, but we aren't exactly sure how it works. Could they give him a scholarship to a school that's listed as his number 4 choice and even though he got into his number one choice, not be able to use the scholarship there? He has already taken his DODMERB physical and we are just waiting to get his final clearance.

It's going to be a difficult decision about whether to go to the US Academy or Harvard if he's able to secure the NROTC scholarship.

Here are some of his stats:

SAT: 1560
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.63 W
RANK: Either 1 or 2 out of 460
EC: Varsity Football, Varsity Lacrosse, National Honor Society (officer), Research Assistant at a university laboratory.
HONORS/AWARDS: National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists, AP Scholar with Distinction, won awards at national and international STEM competitions, nominated for the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award

Any information would be greatly appreciated!
 
KP1990 is early action or early decision, I'm not sure which, but I think one of those if accepted requires you to drop your USNA application.
 
@KP1990, NROTC can grant a scholarship to any of the listed schools. Could be #1 and not #5, or #5 and not #1, or anything in between. If he’s genuinely interested in attending the other schools, then he should complete the applications to maximize his options.

As for Harvard vs. USNA (if it comes to that), we call this a “First World problem.” I’m sure your DS will somehow survive that decision ordeal. Best wishes to him.
 
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I would have him apply to those 4 schools. NROTC scholarships are tied to the mid and the school. There are limited amount of slots for each unit. He may find that they award him a scholarship to a different college, and now you have to wait until spring to ask NROTC to re-assign him to Harvard. I am assuming his other 4 would be akin to Yale, UPenn, Princeton, Stanford or MIT. NROTC can award it to any of those schools.

It does not mean that he can't go to Harvard and be a walk on if they don't transfer the scholarship, but he would not be contracted.

xposted with MidCakePa
 
He is also applying to Princeton, Yale and Cornell. Only 900 students were admitted through early action to Harvard. I'm not sure how many of those are applying for an nrotc scholarship, but I'm hoping that the fact that he's already been accepted to Harvard would be weighed in his favor as far as getting his scholarship awarded there if he got one.

Having to choose between schools like Annapolis and Harvard is a good problem to have.
 
If your DS is on the fence either way regarding Harvard NROTC and USNA, I would suggest you sit him down and have a true heart to heart now.

The lifestyles will be 180 degree opposite even if he is NROTC. Let's be real here, the atmosphere will be completely different as a student.
Our DS was a kid with 4 noms in hand for USAFA, not including a VP nom chance. He received his AFROTC scholarship in Dec., and had admission to his number 1 civilian college with merit scholarship. He basically had a full ride either way he went. USAFA was not closing their files until Feb. We sat him down and played devil's advocate of why USAFA over his other choice. With every answer he gave to our questions we flipped it again.
~ Why USAFA?
~~ANS: Best chance to be a pilot.
~ What if you were guaranteed a pilot slot out of AFROTC?
~~ ANS: I don't know that is hard
~ Why than is USAFA your 1st choice?
~~ANS: Because it is free.
~~~ RESPONSE: So is going to your 1st choice with AFROTC. OBTW, getting in and graduating are 2 different things. You have to want to be there to be a success in college. There has never been 100% of appointees that commission 4 yrs later, many don't make it because it was not a match for them.
~~~~~ Silence from our DS.

You need to ask the hard questions now so they will happy next fall when they are away from home. JMPO.
 
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He is also applying to Princeton, Yale and Cornell. Only 900 students were admitted through early action to Harvard. I'm not sure how many of those are applying for an nrotc scholarship, but I'm hoping that the fact that he's already been accepted to Harvard would be weighed in his favor as far as getting his scholarship awarded there if he got one.
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The thing is you stated he is in the application process for NROTC scholarship. NROTC boards have been meeting since early September. There may be candidates with Harvard on the list that have been awarded an NROTC scholarship, but have yet to hear from Harvard regarding admission. HQ NROTC has placed them in that slot regardless of acceptance to Harvard. IOWS, it has nothing to do with Harvard admissions when they offer a scholarship to Harvard.
~ Rule of thumb for NROTC scholarship applicants is to have safeties, matches and reaches on their list. NROTC scholarship board does not delve deep enough into the applicant's resume to see which are reaches and which are matches. They just make a decision and assign to those schools. Hence, why many in the spring request that their scholarship is transferred, because they didn't get into the reach, but NROTC assigned them the scholarship to that school.
 
We have had some discussions already about this. I'm a USMMA grad so I have spoken to him about life at a service academy. He went to summer seminar at USNA this past summer so he got a little taste of what the Academy is like, but you're right. Life at an academy and life at a regular college are completely different. I think he's leaning towards Harvard and going NROTC but hes not saying anything yet. It's hard to turn down Harvard.
 
Is there any way to know if the slots for a particular school have been filled already? I guess if my DS got a scholarship for a different school, he would have to request to use it at Harvard and hope it was approved.

Between class work, football, applying to Annapolis, getting his paperwork in for nominations, applying to other colleges, etc..., he didn't stay on top of his NROTC application. Hopefully that won't come back to bite him on the rear.
 
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