It sounds like your friend is interested in military-related institutions - is he?
Can he work on his English now - isn’t it the holidays in Korea, or has the new school year started?
What about ROTC at a “civilian” college, would that interest him?
What about TAMU Galveston?
Birmingham Southern would certainly admit him and accept some transfer credits.
What about these - all have ROTC:
Auburn
UAlabama (yours!)
UA-Hunstville
UA-B
UMontevallo
In the rest of the country…
U Northern Colorado
UDel
FIU
Drake
Iowa State
Western KentuckyU
University of Maine-Orono
WPI
University of Minnesota
Ole Miss
Southern Miss
Truman State
Clarkson
St Bonaventure
Appalachian State
UNC-Charlotte
Capital-Ohio
Ohio University
UCincinatti
UToledo
Dickinson
Edinboro U-PA
Penn State
UScranton
Widener
Wofford
Norwich University, VT
George Mason
Radford
Marshall
WVU
UWI-Lacrosse
UWI-Eau Claire
The school JUST started in Korea, I believe.
He wants to be some kind of anti-terrorism specialist? I don’t know in English because we exchanged in Korean.
Cybersecurity ?
The first thing hé should do, if he can, is focus in taking English lessons.
Nope, itn’s not cybersecurity. Still haven’t figure out yet.
Thanks for the list, @MYOS1634 . Among those ROTC schools, what are the “better” ones? In Korea-as you have heard countless times-the school names matters, yet I m not sure if it’s same for military…
If he’s going back to Korea, he needs to pick from the list of places that are “good enough”. ROTC is ROTC pretty much wherever. If his goal is to use ROTC as a route to US citizenship through the military, then the university doesn’t really matter. Finding a recruiter who will help him with the process of getting into that special program is what will matter.
UCincinnati and Penn State might be known in Korea but I don’t know how they’re seen there. UCincinnati is less expensive than Penn State and easier to get into.
ROTC is ROTC, so he should apply to all colleges where he has a shot and which his family can afford outright, and then look at his acceptances.
Both are well known in Korea but the latter has better reputation. Though, I guess ROTC is really ROTC, since they don’t teach different thigns in different schools.
UPdate: He contacted TAMU and got a reply that internatinoal transfer who apply for Cadet Corps get same benefit if accepted. He is concerned that his low GPA will make the transfer harder.
He is also wondering if submitting SAT is better than submitting TOEFL.
Lastly, he was going to drop out of his current school, but he needed a signature from one of his parent. His mother passes away a while ago and his father is living in other area so its difficult to him. It seems like he is going to be expelled for not paying tuition. Will this negatively affect him when he applies to TAMU?
Can’t the father FAX his signature today/tomorrow !?!? Or scan the doc asap ? Can the father at least call as soon as the Korean university opens so that his son’s record is not 'tainted’by an expulsion - which would severely compromise not only admission to Corps of Cadets, but also any military program ?
Hé should submit both sat and TOEFL if he thinks he can do well, and two sat subject to boot - in order to prove he’s qualified, and offset his current GPA.
The thing is, security system in Korea is very meticulous and ineffective.
I asked him and according to school, his father HAS TO COME IN PERSON. Isn’t that just @%!$%stupid?
Also, he is wondering if submitting SAT 2 tests will improve his chance. His GPA isn’t really good, around 2.5 out of 4,5 scale?
Yes, good subject test results will offset his GPA a little.
He should target directional or less-selective university.
Is TAMU selective for international transfer? This studentthinks TAMU is OK school but not good because it’s not known in Korea(again…)
Well, it’s one of the Texas flagships. His odds are pretty low.
Beside the military, what does he want to major in ?
He’s not certain what he wants to major in. It seems like the ROTC programs requires citizenships in the schools that you provided. I ahve to look into myself though
TAMU specifies that transfer applicants should have 2.5GPA or higher.
However he has 2.455 GPA in his college. Is this “2.5 GPA” based on American Scale, or does it not matter?
The college told him to send him the original transcript. From what I see the school seems to have their own foreign transcript “translation”.
What other directional schools in texas offer similar programs to foreign students? Or any private universities?
If his GPA is a Korean 2.5 he should not use that since numbers have different Meanings depending on country
Then should he apply anyway and see what happens? Also he keeps saying he’s going to apply transfer to TAMU only now becaue he couldn’t find other schools with similar program
Yes, he should apply anyway and see what happens.
He will either get in, or not get in. In either of those cases, he will have an answer.
I think you are asking a lot of very specific questions for a “friend,” just saying…
@sunseeker I am already a college student. I m not disguising myself as my friend.
He has limited English skill so I m asking instead of him. My questions aren’t even that specific and they have been asked before by other studetns.