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Scholarships for ROTC

I talked to an officer the other day (seahawk pilot) who is going to be helping me with my application and he had not heard anything about the non-techs not getting contracts.
 
The man who wrote that piece was one of my old Naval Science professors. I know the exact situation he was writing about. I have to say that we have had very few (ie 1) non-tech major get picked up for 2/3 year contracts in the last 2 years.
 
I'm a 3/c and at the beginning of this year we had 3 kids in my class pick up scholarships. One was a Navy option engineer, one a Marine option non-tech, and the third a Navy option non-tech.
 
nrotcbruin said:
I've heard a few things to that nature. I think NETC wants to push the whole tech major thing as we are in a transition to a more technical navy...
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What horse manure. We're not any more technical than we've been for the past 10 years (save network-centric warfare, which JOs don't really deal in), and actually, DOD has been pushing for a lot more language training, which at most schools doesn't really jive with having a technical major.
 
squorch2 said:
We're not any more technical than we've been for the past 10 years (save network-centric warfare, which JOs don't really deal in
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Your're joking right?
 
I am a business major and got an NROTC acceptance the second time I applied. 3.6 GPA 290 pft

I changed my mind between the time I applied and the time I got accepted, i am now PLC air contract
 
squorch2 said:
What horse manure. We're not any more technical than we've been for the past 10 years (save network-centric warfare, which JOs don't really deal in), and actually, DOD has been pushing for a lot more language training, which at most schools doesn't really jive with having a technical major.
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still doesn't validate your management degree :)
 
Steve Wilkins said:
BTW, the author was an EP-3 pilot and NROTC instructor at The Citadel. He's now out of the navy and attending Yale Law School.
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That EP-3 Pilot got me my scholarship. I am classmates with the prospective MIDN that he was referring to, and we were all shocked when he wasn't picked up. He went army.

I am now a 1st class, and selected for NFO. A bunch of sophomores just got picked up for 3 yr scholarships, and I believe that many of them are non tech guys.
 
Is the author who I think it is? Maybe that was what he was doing in his office 19 hours a day. I thought he was an IA in Iraq. Or are they talking about the H-bear? I didn't know him real well. But-- its not true. From the unit he was attached to, the scholarship awarding still seems to break down pretty much blind to major selection. It is sort of a tradeoff-- soft majors are a little behind the power curve in some things at the fleet, but their collegiate attrition is a good bit lower, and they are often better at more important things, like writing evaluations or recommendations. If I was an enlisted dude who had to work under someone, I would rather work under a technically clueless guy that could write my recommendation is flawless rhyme royal than some tech-hotshot that didn't understand the little characters formed sounds...

Also-- do any current mids remember taking that survey about 2 years ago on technical majors vs. nontechnical? It put forward pretty much everything which has been discussed here as a possible option.

PS- Shocked? You have talked to the 'prospective midshipman' right? Personality is still at least somewhat grade-able, I think...
 
GulfBreezeGuy said:
Also-- do any current mids remember taking that survey about 2 years ago on technical majors vs. nontechnical? It put forward pretty much everything which has been discussed here as a possible option.
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Yes sir, according to all the big wigs when they were passing that thing out technical majors should have been making a cool grand right now... as a freshman:icon_roll
 
GulfBreezeGuy said:
Is the author who I think it is?

PS- Shocked? You have talked to the 'prospective midshipman' right? Personality is still at least somewhat grade-able, I think...
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Yeah, it was pooh bear.

As far as the "prospective mid". When he was going for the naval scholarship he wasn't a total d-bag.
 
I picked up a 3-yr this year...non-tech major, 3.2, EH. I was pretty surprised to get picked up; the unit staff input (CO/ Counselor recommendations) had a lot to do with it. This isn't always the case though- the previous cycle they seemed to totally disregard my CO's rankings and input, but for me, it's pretty much why I have a scholarship.
 
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