<p>My S applied to West Point his senior year of HS and didn’t get in, reapplied his freshman year of college and got in. But he turned West Point down, decided to stay where he is because he really loves it there. He’s doing Army ROTC and has a full tuition scholarship. So anyways, you might consider ROTC. You’ll owe less service when you get out of school (4 years active duty instead of 5), and you’ll have a more normal life while you’re in college. Word of advice: if you’re going to do ROTC, decide before you get to college. Some schools don’t give you a scholarship for your room and board if you wait and decide to do ROTC after you’ve already accepted your admission offer, so you end up with scholarship for tuition but having to pay room and board yourself when you could have had it all paid for. Quick, guess how we know this.</p>