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[quote=Anonymous]I have a kid that has a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship at a top 20 college.

These scholarships are incredibly difficult to get. My kid also received a Congressional Nomination as he was considering West Point. You can't BS your way through this process. There is no one in ROTC at MIT, Duke, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Notre Dame and similar schools with on campus programs that floated through the application process on a lark.

It's not just the academics and the public service. It's the fitness tests. 98 percent of American 18 year olds have zero shot at a ROTC scholarship.

And it's only gotten more difficult over the past year or two. The Army has a glut of young officers presently, so they aren't offering many ROTC scholarships at all now.

So this is a roundabout way of saying, no, some lardass can't simply check a ROTC box, get a magical boost in admissions at T20 colleges, cash a $70,000 check, and walk away 8 months later like it's some clever scam. That's not the real world. That's the pretend world of high schoolers who don't know better.[/quote]

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