d.mcknight
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Once your application has gone to NETC for "final processing and selection determination" is it possible to change the ranking of your 5 schools?
Doesn't the NROTC board make their selection based off of the schools you choose though? I feel like I chose some reach schools (USC, Northwestern) that might make it difficult for me to receive a scholarship. Would it be worth it to change my schools to schools that I have already applied to, and would more likely be accepted at? Or does your school ranking have nothing to do with getting a scholarship for NROTC?
I've already gotten into my 4th choice school. Should I email them and ask to change it to my fourth? Or if I get the scholarship and don't get into the school, am I able to tell them that I didn't get into my top school but want to the scholarship for a different school on my list? If it helps me at all, I will email them right away and change the order of my schools.
Also, what if I want to go to a school that's not on my top 5 list but does have NROTC. Can I ask to use the scholarship for that school? I did say that I would be happy to have an NROTC Scholarship at any NROTC school so that might help a bit...
The Navy place you at a school. They send a daily list to the ROTC departments at the schools of people that have been placed with the Unit. They don't over allocate to schools so the longer the process goes on the less chance there is of reallocating a cadet elsewhere because the places might all have been filled.
I would remove any school from your list that you might not get into. Also, re-order the schools so the one you already have a place at is number one or two. let them know in the email you have been accepted at the school already.
What if the school you are assigned to offered you an admissiom, but not in the program you put in your application to NROTC & the school (i.e. accepted in Arts & Sciences and not Engineering)?
Reality is, my DS is only really interested in 2 schools..and the first choice is REALLY what he wants....should he delete the other schools on his application? He never applied to the other 3 he listed and would not want to go even if he received a NROTC scholarship. At the time of his NROTC application he hadn't visited campuses and has in the meantime checked them out and has been accepted at the 2 he applied to and liked.
I've seen the question asked a number of times about whether an applicant should advise the NROTC (before they've been awarded a scholarship) that they have been accepted by one of their colleges. Does the selection committee care (before awarding a scholarship) whether an applicant has already been accepted into any/all of his colleges or is it just a waste of an email to advise you?We have caps at each school and not everyone is going to get assigned to Embry Riddle, Penn State, or San Diego. Caps are created to equally spread out applicants among the schools.