Keep in mind that public university First Year Engineering programs generally have much higher admission criteria then the overall university. Here is what I found for Purdue. Selective private universities are harder to get admitted to than getting the ROTC scholarship.interesting ! just check DS 5 selected colleges for his Naval ROTC --- all (including safety school) have average SAT much higher than that of Naval Academy. Certainly it is a different selection process. For SA it needs a nomination while for ROTC - it needs two parallel independent applications (rotc scholarship and college admission).
IT SOUNDS LIKE IF YOUR SAT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOP ENGINEERING SCHOOL, ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR NROTC?
A conversation that I can imagine, overheard in the hallway, in between classes:How could your DS know his math teacher writing an excellent math letter ? I thought all teachers evaluations/recommendation were confidential.