<p>flyingllama, I’m in the NROTC program at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I’m not trying to persuade you not to apply to the Academy if you think you have the academics, but just from how you sound in your post, I can almost 99% guarantee you’ll be better of doing NROTC at a college that you like. Naval Academy doesn’t even have a business major, let alone any of its concentrations eg: accounting, finance, etc. Naval Academy has a tremendous amount of resources available to midshipmen there and a much more structured and rigorous military environment. As an ROTC mid, you’ll end up in the same exact place a naval academy mid (a commissioned active duty officer), and everyone has to take the same general naval science, engineering, and math requirements. Both ROTC and Naval Academy mids also go on almost the same summer cruises although it varies slightly sometimes. However, ROTC offers you much more independence in college. </p>
<p>Just to give you an example, I’m a midshipman going into my 4th year here and have worked full time for a big 4 accounting firm for six months and part time for about a year, starting out as a summer intern. This is all while I manage my ROTC duties, PT, Drill, naval science classes, and go on summer cruises. You won’t be able to do something like that in the Naval Academy. In fact, you don’t even need to do ROTC at all, you can just go straight through officer candidate school or another officer commissioning program, but ROTC pays full tuition, pays for your books, gives you a monthly stipend, etc and at some schools even room and board. Best parts are the summer cruises though where you learn a lot and get to test out different communities and travel the world! good luck and PM me if you have any q’s</p>