<p>Stanford University students can take ROTC at Santa Clara University.</p>
<p>All ROTC students compete for their branch assignments. It is done by merit - a factor of your military performance (namely at LDAC) and your GPA.
Once you are a Commissioned Officer it doesn’t matter from where you graduated, if your unit is deployed then you go too. A 2nd Lt from Harvard serves the same role as a 2nd Lt from any other school.</p>
<p>There are a couple of good books out their by Ivy Leage grads who served recently. You might want to check out “This Man’s Army” by Andrew Exum and “One Bullet Away” by Nate Fick. Exum is a Penn Grad, while Fick is a Dartmouth grad.</p>