ROTC question re Educational Delay

Yeah. University South Carolina only uses those AP courses for validation. DS is treated as having completed the courses for prerequisite purposes but does not get college credit for them. Back in the late vacuum tube era when I attended college we got credit for the AP courses which was a big help in reducing the workload.
 
That's odd, all of the DE and AP credit I have will apply to my degree except Calc II since the one I took didn't incorporate linear analysis. So I lost 4 credit hours, but mostly got that back since one of my Social Studies classes also counted as an overlay requirement which brings me up to 30. All of them documented in the system as valid transfer credits put towards my degree, even has me listed as a sohpmore. Yes there are 1 or 2 classes I want to take that I can't because they're only offered once a semester, but there is a reasonable explanation. My major is so small that they simply can't offer certain specialty classes more than once a year. I'm not refuting the statement that college is a scam, it is, I'm just a little surprised by how much more of a scam it is in differnent places. Honestly, I wasn't expecting so many of my credits to be validated, but I would have been shocked if it had turned out that most off the extra work I did in HS was moot. All those credits down the drain...:bang:
 
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This thread is beginning to sound like it would get more information by being posted on College Confidential. I haven't seen the Military mentioned in the past few pages.
 
Ah, College Confidential. What I love most about that site is when high school kids give other High school kids bad advice about college, often never having even applied, accepted or attended. Also worth noting, the "chances" posts and "please read my essays".

Seriously deluded.
 
Ah, College Confidential. What I love most about that site is when high school kids give other High school kids bad advice about college, often never having even applied, accepted or attended. Also worth noting, the "chances" posts and "please read my essays".

Seriously deluded.

I visited that site a few years back, sorry to hear it has gone in that direction.
 
Ah, College Confidential. What I love most about that site is when high school kids give other High school kids bad advice about college, often never having even applied, accepted or attended. Also worth noting, the "chances" posts and "please read my essays".

Seriously deluded.

Not to mention the great recipes you'll find there on devilled eggs.
 
There are lots of good things on CC. I actually met Pima there, years and years ago!

The thing to remember about that site or any, is information isn't necessarily accurate and your mileage may vary. Clearly, even in this thread, the OP didn't bargain for all the extra advice and I am not sure if it was appreciated with the spirit it was given! I do not believe that people post here maliciously and I haven't seen the kind of trolls that were a regular attraction at CC.

What has worked for one person may not work for another. One person's credentials may earn them a spot at a SA, while another person has a different outcome.

What I do appreciate at this site and CC is when you do get those nuggets of wisdom that help you figure something out that you can't figure out on your own. The key with most things is doing your homework and researching what you can. I always have enjoyed the wide range of opinions and information at this site. I no longer will even be a military parent now with kid's disenrollment, but I still find it all interesting.
 
I will awaken this thread with some thoughts for the OP. My DS is currently in his 2nd year of college on an ROTC scholarship at an Ivy school (by the way the only school that rejected him was JHU and he originally received his scholarship to UVA but was able to get it transferred). He is a top student which requires him to study basically full-time. He is planning on majoring in Chemistry or Biology (leaning heavily toward biology--but he knows this isn't the best degree for pre-med, but he loves it).

He is very concerned about getting an educational delay. He knows even with his grades and his college, it isn't a guarantee. He worries about wanting to do a semester abroad for his major and how that would impact his OLM scores and preparation for LDAC. He understands well that he needs to focus on what he needs to get into a desired branch if he doesn't get an educational delay.

As others have said, nothing is guaranteed. I'm not too worried about him losing his scholarship except for something like a medical issue (and luckily none of that is in his radar, or he'd have one more thing to stress over). He wants to study abroad for the excellent learning opportunity and field study it offers, but is worried it will hurt his ROTC situation since he will miss a semester of labs right before he will do his summer LDAC.

We've told him to discuss it with the cadre (which he has already done but needs to get more details). He will have to decide if he can work on his own to practice the skills he will be missing during a semester abroad. He knows at least one other MS student who did this recently and he was able do do well at LDAC.

Your DS needs to evaluate what he wants from his educational experience and balance that with what he will need to do for ROTC and the unknowns that go with it. My DS has wanted to serve as a Army Doctor since he was 6. He has not wavered in this goal, but he knows he may not get there immediately after graduation. He is evaluating all the potential outcomes and working to put himself in the best position for whatever comes his way.

Good luck!
 
Here's a news flash...LDAC is not rocket science. If you understand troop leading procedures, if you have a good grasp of the 5 paragraph operation order format, and if you are relatively smart you will be successful at LDAC. As LDAC moves away from being an evaluation and towards being a training event (another news flash) it will be less critical that you be "ready" for LDAC. If he works with his cadre and successfully pulls off a semester abroad while meeting the requirements put on him by his Battalion I would think that would be a plus. Hopefully his cadre feel the same way I do. Hope everything works out for him. Tell him to stop worrying so much.
 
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