Ivy league...maybe

JustAMomOf4
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:03:13 +0000

Marine4Life - If you are interested in the Marines - they have a program call PLC - Platoon Leader’s Course. You can sign up and go after your freshman year. You can get money for college but you won’t be doing ROTC it is strictly summer. You will not get a full scholarship.
You can, however, get guaranteed ground or guaranteed aviation.

Advice - if you are offered an Army ROTC scholarship - keep it open until you get your NROTC offer - they usually come later. Don’t turn anything down until you get all your offers/rejections.

Two current books that may interest you:
“One Bullet Away” - by Nathaniel Fick. He went to Dartmouth and then Marine OCS after college and became a Marine Officer.
“This Man’s Army” by Andrew Exum. He joined Army ROTC to pay for his Penn education. He was an infantry officer and a Ranger. He was posted to Ft Drum during 9/11 and fought in Afghanistan.