Get The No Fear Battalion

You need a minimum 2.5 high school GPA for ROTC to qualify for ROTC scholarships. You must also maintain a 2.5 college GPA. Additional entry requirements include being at least 17 years old, scoring at least 19 on the ACT or 920 on the SAT, and passing your military branch's physical fitness test.

College ROTC programs can be a challenging and rewarding experience in college that reaps many benefits during and after service.

Navy ROTC. This is a more difficult scholarship to obtain than the Army ROTC scholarship but not as hard as the Air Force Scholarship. For the academic year 2021-2022 about 1,200 applicants were awarded a scholarship. The following is how Navy ROTC breaks out its scoring by percentages to select scholarship winners.

ROTC Patch Symbolism The sword signifies the courage, gallantry and self-sacrifice intrinsic to the profession of arms. The lamp denotes the pursuit of knowledge, higher learning, and the partnership of Army ROTC with American colleges and universities.

Army ROTC pays for your tuition while you go to college and train to become an Army Officer. It's offered at more than 1,000 colleges and universities. Get the college experience and graduate as a highly respected second lieutenant in the Army, Army Reserve, or Army National Guard.

Air Force ROTC has many benefits for cadets contracted in the program. Upon graduation and successful completion of Air Force ROTC, one receives a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force or United States Space Force.

Cadets on scholarship must maintain a 2.5 grade point average, and cadets not on scholarship must maintain a 2.0 grade point average. All cadets must be enrolled full time as a student at a college that offers AFROTC classes or has a crosstown agreement with one.

The Motto "Leadership Excellence" expresses the ultimate responsibility of Army ROTC in the discharge of its moral responsibility to the Nation.

Cadets ebb and flow, some join later in the program, some take longer to finish their degree and take an extra year, but most do not make it through the program. AFROTC is not hard, but it is time consuming and you have to want it to make it through.