Sorry if there was any confusion.
I'm 2 years into a 5-year degree program for Ocean Engineering, and trying to commission into the Navy (and really hoping for a SNA/SNFO slot, but of course, officer first-> aviator second). I'm at a Senior Military College (VT), and active on the Intercollegiate Sailing Team and in Community Service. (Waiting to finish 2000-level physics before thinking about frats, etc.)
The Navy likes certain majors (Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical/Marine/Naval/Ocean/Nuclear Engineering) more than others (History, English, Underwater Basket Weaving) and uses a tier system to delineate them as such-i.e. Aerospace Engineering is Tier 1, Chemistry is Tier 2, Poli Sci is Tier 3.
The old CNO said he wanted 85% of matriculating NROTC ensigns to hold a technical degree, and the other 15% to hold LREC (languages/international studies)
I cannot take a NAMI or the ASTB in NROTC until I am contracted, which will be either when I pick up a 3-year scholarship (August 2016), a 2-year scholarship (August 2017) or "advanced standing college program", May-September 2017.
I was trying to see if there was anyone who was/is in a similar situation, and who knows what the selection board in Pensacola is looking for when they give out scholarships and advanced standing, so that I may THEN take the ASTB and the flight physical and apply for 1370/1390.
The reason I ask is because my classmate, the Tier-3 Russian Major got picked up for a 3-year scholarship with a 3.14, and I'm tracking for somewhere between a 3.1 and a 3.3 in a Tier-1, technical engineering program, and even with downsizing/sequestration will the selection board for NROTC take into account technical coursework when deciding on who contracts.