NROTC Scholarship details?

DunninLA
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:35:35 +0000

Hi.

My rising senior has just completed her Officer Interview. The application lists her 5 choices in priority order.

This is a fictitious list that will serve to illustrate my question:


Vanderbilt
University of San Diego (almost a co-#1 choice) … this one is real.
University of Florida
Holy Cross
Fordham


I’m hoping someone here has gone through this process recently. My understanding of the process is this:


Scholarship Committee meets in August, Sept, October, etc.
Scholarship Committee awards a Scholarship for use at Vanderbilt or at cross town affiliates Tennessee State University and Belmont University.
Student is rejected at Vanderbilt, and has no interest in Tennessee St. or Belmont.


Can this Vanderbilt-rejected student then ask the NROTC to have the Vanderbilt Unit Scholarship transferred to the University of San Diego NROTC Unit?

How this works exactly might influence whether my rising senior switches the order of Choice #1 (Top 50 school, low match for admittance), and Univ. of San Diego, which is more of a Safety for admission.

It would be a shame to lose the opportunity to use the NROTC Scholarship at USD just because the more selective 1st choice didn’t work out in admissions … if that is in fact how the system works.

Any feedback is appreciated.