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NROTC Pilot Selction Rate
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Typical USAF. It will vary from year to year, unit to unit. We had two aviators selected my first three years at my unit then 11 in a single year. So the answer is, it depends and you won't get a good answer.
Zamerica
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That's what I thought. Does it matter what college you go to? I assume that USNA mids get preferential treatment.
No and no. NROTC mids are rated nationally so you competing against everyone nationwide for slots. A few schools apparently do brag about higher selection rates but they aren't telling the whole story, if it is an aviation-centric school of course there will be more folks who select aviation.
The allotments between NROTC and USNA have seemed to be very equitable since I started in the Navy many moons ago with both getting a proportional amount of slots. Again, not necessarily the case with the USAF but we ain't them.
Because they try to provide some data to those that ask? Yep... typical USAF.
Only part of a story is often worse than none. Are the units providing any context when they tell folks their numbers? Like their selection rate vs the one nationwide or the selection rate from year to year? The AFROTC unit at my school had two guys select pilot out of about 45 cadets one year but this was at a time when pilot selections were very low nationwide overall so it wasn't because the unit sucked, it was because it was the mid-90's.
The Navy could do a lot better about pushing numbers, like the USMC yearly air plan, but pushing out bad, misleading or incomplete info that seems to be a trend with some USAF folks/offices/units I deal with is even less helpful.
My take for NROTC selection - assuming your eyesight, flight physical and minimum requirements on ASTB the selection numbers are in your favor. There is sufficient numbers of NROTC midshipmen who have disqualifying attributes for pilot selection (anthro, eye sight, etc) that if you are physically/physiology qualed and meet ASTB mins, your chances sre well over 70% IMHO. YMMV.