Just a few STA-21 Questions

[FMRAM]

Sure...

 

[Navy Swimmer02]

I have a few questions regarding STA-21.

How does the process of selecting a university work? Do you have to meet the universities admission requirements or are you subject to different admission requirements? Also, are you able to choose the university of your choice as long as they have an NROTC Battalion?

 

[FMRAM]

I have a few questions regarding STA-21.

How does the process of selecting a university work? Do you have to meet the universities admission requirements or are you subject to different admission requirements? Also, are you able to choose the university of your choice as long as they have an NROTC Battalion?

The STA-21 instruction gives a list of acceptable NROTC affilliated universities. Use these to narrow your search. For the most part, you are subject to the same admission requirements, but there are at least two schools that will automatically accept sta-21 sailors (Idaho and Minnisota I believe). You have to choose one of the universitys on the list.

 

[Navy Swimmer02]

Why does Idaho and Minnesota automatically accept STA-21 applicants? OU would be my first choice, but every year they keep raising the admissions standards.

 

[FMRAM]

Why does Idaho and Minnesota automatically accept STA-21 applicants? OU would be my first choice, but every year they keep raising the admissions standards.

Well have you applied yet?

 

[Steve Wilkins]

I think that sailors with a solid math background have better chances of getting picked up.

I've put this out here before. If you have completed both semesters of calc (or three quarters), your chances of being selected for STA-21 increase substantially.

 

[Navy Swimmer02]

Not yet.

 

[Spot]

Not yet.

My advice is to go ahead and apply early. I left for deployment last June and found out that I had been selected for STA-21 in early November. At that point, I had only done a little bit here and there in terms of applying to colleges because I thought I had plenty of time. It turned out that the STA-21 guys in Pensacola wanted acceptance letters from colleges by the 19th of December. Luckily, I had my wife to take care of things that I couldn't do from overseas and we finally got everything together, but not without a ton of nail biting and phone calls.
Bottom line, don't procrastinate and think you have plenty of time. The STA-21 program is all about having everything together to submit at a moment's notice. It makes it a whole lot easier.

 

[Navy Swimmer02]

good idea, thanks for the heads up. What should I look for when choosing a University? Are all Battalions the same? Some Universities have better degree programs I've noticed. What is every one elses experience?

 

[Thisguy]

It turned out that the STA-21 guys in Pensacola wanted acceptance letters from colleges by the 19th of December.

That's a pretty unforgiving deadline given that a lot of schools don't notify students until April of the following year. A lot of larger state schools have rolling admissions, which is a sweet deal, because not only will you find out sooner the sooner you apply, but it's often easier to get in if you apply before November (or whatever deadline the school sets).

 

[Tibmag]

the participating colleges know STA-21, if you speak with admissions, you can get a POC that understands the program, at this point I have already been accepted to my primary and backup school, and have an intial draft of the degree plan that will eventually be turned in. To echo what Spot had said, I did not want to leave anything to chance, every step I can think of I have taken, and then some.