All Branch Topic (ABT) NROTC to med school

[llamaoverlord]

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I'm a pretty smart guy. I'm in high school have a 4.0 gpa and I'm #5 out of 315 students in my class. I've heard you can get educational delays from rotc to go to med school. My question is if I'm qualified will I pretty much get the delay. A hypothetical scenario: I have like a 3.8-4.0 gpa, my MCAT scores are good, ive done well in rotcand my rotc classes, and I've been accepted into a medical school. What are my chances?

 

[backrow]

Good, but not as good as if you didn't have ROTC. There are also tons of variables, are you prepared to have to delay your medical education for five years if they don't let you go? If so then go right ahead, if not then don't do ROTC

 

[Kingfisher]

I'm a pretty smart guy. I'm in high school have a 4.0 gpa and I'm #5 out of 315 students in my class. I've heard you can get educational delays from rotc to go to med school. My question is if I'm qualified will I pretty much get the delay. A hypothetical scenario: I have like a 3.8-4.0 gpa, my MCAT scores are good, ive done well in rotcand my rotc classes, and I've been accepted into a medical school. What are my chances?

Just for the Navy, not sure about other services:

Every year the Navy will allow a number of its midshipmen to apply to medical school. The number varies (it was 25 per year about 10 years ago and I don't have any idea how many it is per year today). Sometime in your 3rd year of undergraduate education you would apply to the Navy (there is an instruction that comes out that lists the application process) to be one of those students with the golden ticket that allows you to apply to medical school. You still would have the ROTC commitment added on top of the HPSP/USUHS commitment so you would effectively be enslaved to the military for up to 14 years when it is all said and done.

 

[Moose A Moose]

I don't foresee an issue. Sounds like you're saddled with deciding to take a direct, four-year NROTC scholarship. Go for it, although waiting and just doing the HPSP would be easier.