<p>What is the difference between an appointment to the Naval Academy and a full NROTC scholorship? I know a guy who recieved a NROTC scholorship and is going to the Naval Academy. What is the difference if there is one.</p>
<p>Well, a ROTC sholarship doesn’t give you an Academy Experience. If you have the scholarship, you attend a civilian school. They’re two completely different things. Check out both the websites.</p>
<p>full NROTC scholarship pays full tuition at a civilian university like UCLA, Harvard etc.</p>
<p>Here’s the links (Sorry):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usna.edu/[/url]”>http://www.usna.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://www.nrotc.navy.mil%5B/url%5D”>https://www.nrotc.navy.mil</a></p>
<p>Another difference is that financially the Academy is a better deal, as NROTC does not pay room and board which can be a sizable sum.</p>
<p>Your acquaintance will be declining the NROTC scholarship if he goes to the Naval Academy.</p>
<p>USMC457: I remember from your earlier post that you are a USNA hopeful for Class of 2012, right? Here’s an overview of NROTC vs. USNA:</p>
<p>As stated above, NROTC scholarships pay full tuition (but not room and board) plus a monthly stipend at a civilian college. When you apply for the scholarship, you specify the school you plan to attend. The scholarship is specific to the NROTC unit that serves that school. Since you live in Maryland I’ll give you a local example: if you were planning to attend UMD College Park, you would apply for an NROTC scholarship to the George Washington University unit, because the GW unit covers a number of schools in the area, including UMD.</p>
<p>As a recepient of the scholarship, you must participate in weekly military training activities and take specific classes (for credit) with the local NROTC unit. If you attended UMD, you would travel to GW three times a week to take classes. You might also do some of your training, such as weekly PT workouts, with just the group from UMD.</p>
<p>On graduation, you are eligible for commissioning as an officer and you owe the Navy a certain number of years of active duty and reserve service. It is my understanding that if you are hoping to commission into the Marines, you need to apply for the Marine Corps Option when you are seeking the scholarship – and its harder to get than the regular Navy option.</p>
<p>Most USNA applicants ALSO apply for NROTC scholarships for two reasons: 1) its a great backup plan if you don’t get appointed to the Academy and 2) it demonstrates to the Academy that you are serious about becoming an officer. Many, many, Academy appointees are offered NROTC scholarships for the simple reason that if you are good enough to get into USNA, you probably qualify for an NROTC scholarship.</p>
<p>Accepting the scholarship when it is offered (usually before the USNA appointment comes through) is not a problem. In fact, you can hold onto the scholarship right up until I-Day, just in case something happens and you find you cannot enter the Academy. However, once you show up for I-Day and are inducted, the scholarship offer automatically expires and will be offered to someone else.</p>
<p>Good point about accepting the scholarship until I-Day. I should have been more precise.</p>
<p>I applied for the Marine option NROTC and the Academy and if I could go back and change it I probably would have applied Navy NROTC. Heres why: I got a call early January from an officer with Navy ROTC who explained to me that it is MUCH (5 times) harder to get a Marine scholarship just because of pure numbers, but that if you get a Navy scholarship, you can transfer over to Marines your Junior year of college. That way you end up in the same place but its just a lot easier to get in the first place.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, what is the difference between a scholarship and tuition waiver?</p>
<p>For air force rotc, i was talking with a person and she said scholarships pay for X amount of dollars and are competitive. Yet EVERYONE gets a tuition waiver.</p>
<p>Am i misunderstanding something?</p>
<p>Thanks alot. I am In MCJROTC now and I am being told applying to both is the way to go. I appriciate this alot fellas.</p>