I'm entering college next summer probably so I can get a jump on it. I'm not sure if I want the 4 year scholarship or any scholarship for that so when is the right time to go and talk to a officer recruiter? Also right now i'm planning on going to a JC then transfering into a 4 year school and NROTC.
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Right Time to talk to recruiter
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I'd talk to them now, and call the recruiting officer at the unit you think you may want to end up at. I'm not quite sure what the rules are for being in NROTC and attending a JC, but I know one of my classmates was enrolled full-time at a local JC his entire freshman year as a college programmer and then picked up a scholarship and transferred to my school.
I don't know if you're attending a JC because you couldn't get into a 4-yr, want to save money, afraid to leave home, etc... but consider doing what this guy did (if the unit will even let you). If you go in as a college programmer, you can pick up a scholarship after 1 semester...as a civilian you can only get a 4 or 2 year scholarship.
I don't know if you're attending a JC because you couldn't get into a 4-yr, want to save money, afraid to leave home, etc... but consider doing what this guy did (if the unit will even let you). If you go in as a college programmer, you can pick up a scholarship after 1 semester...as a civilian you can only get a 4 or 2 year scholarship.
I'm going to a JC to save money I guess then i'm going to Atlanta to either Georgia Tech or Georgia State, both of which have NROTC. I can call them sometime this week and just ask them questions I guess. I don't really know if I want a scholarship mainly because I don't want to fail anything then get shipped to boot camp or whatever so I would rather pay for my uniforms and books and everything. What is a college programmer?
College programmer= non-scholarship Midshipman (they give you the uniforms though)...no service obligation. Although I've never heard of someone not wanting a scholarship because of the (remote) chance of being enlisted...you have to really screw up (or just be retarded) to get a scholarship taken away.
It's happened.
Very few people fail classes because they aren't able to do the work. They fail because they don't put in the time and effort required to learn the material. Don't let the remote chance of not passing calc or physics keep you from applying for a 2 or 4 year scholarship....that is, if you already know you want to be an officer.
They also can't "send you to boot camp" until after your first year or two which is when you sign your contract. I happened to sign mine my sophomore year, but that was because I picked up a scholarship from college, so it was mid-term.
If you fail a couple of classes, they also will board you for aptitude. Like everything else, if you suck in general, they have no need for you, but if you're putting out the effort in every other way, they'll most likely work with you.
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GT Alumnus, good schools. If you are concerned with failing out and you dependent on what your degree goals are, I would recommend Georgia State over Tech (I am an alumnus of both, graduated from Tech) If you go to State, you will cross town with Tech's NROTC program.
I have seen only one person in the last 6-7 years at Tech end up enlisting when they dropped/failed out, but he was a prior enlisted in the Navy, so I think his contract was not up at that point, so he was recalled. Outside that, I would not be too concerned with being forced to enlist. However, it is an option. I also have a friend that got dropped when he was dropped from OCS for failure to evaluate due to heat stress, and they are now trying to get him to repay all the money he got to pay for school with from his scholarship, so be aware of the possibilities.
I did fail an entire semester at the end of my freshman year due to family circumstances, but was retained by the program and am now a pilot, etc, etc. If you want to know how that works, PM me.
If you want to know about Tech, State, and NROTC, look up GTNROTC website at http://nrotc.gatech.edu and you can get the NROTC recruiters number from there.
I have seen only one person in the last 6-7 years at Tech end up enlisting when they dropped/failed out, but he was a prior enlisted in the Navy, so I think his contract was not up at that point, so he was recalled. Outside that, I would not be too concerned with being forced to enlist. However, it is an option. I also have a friend that got dropped when he was dropped from OCS for failure to evaluate due to heat stress, and they are now trying to get him to repay all the money he got to pay for school with from his scholarship, so be aware of the possibilities.
I did fail an entire semester at the end of my freshman year due to family circumstances, but was retained by the program and am now a pilot, etc, etc. If you want to know how that works, PM me.
If you want to know about Tech, State, and NROTC, look up GTNROTC website at http://nrotc.gatech.edu and you can get the NROTC recruiters number from there.