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Four Year Scholarships

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This scholarship is for high school seniors and for people planning to enter college but who are not currently enrolled in any college.
Students are awarded U.S. Army ROTC scholarships through a highly competitive national selection process. Scholarship benefits can either be applied towards full tuition and mandatory fees, or room and board (up to $10,000). Scholarship recipients also receive a $1,200 per year book stipend, and a monthly cadet stipend that ranges from $300 (Freshman) to $500 (Seniors).
Deadline to apply is December 1 of your high school senior year.
To receive an application either call 1-800-USA-ROTC or contact Captain Brandon Cole at Yellow Jacket Battalion Army ROTC by email or phone (404)894-9938, or click here to complete the application online.

Eligibility Criteria

Be a United States citizen.
Be 17 years of age within the first semester of your freshman year, and must not reach your 31st birthday by 31 December of the year in which you will graduate from college and receive your commission.
Be a high school graduate or possess an equivalent certificate before September of the year you will enter college. If you are taking or have taken college courses, you must be considered a beginning Freshman and have 4 academic years remaining for a baccalaureate degree upon enrollment in the fall of the year you will enter college.
If you are in an accelerated program and will complete your senior year of high school and first year of college concurrently - you must have 4 academic years remaining in an approved baccalaureate degree program upon enrollment in the fall.
If you are a college freshman in a documented five year program with 4 years remaining in fall, you must submit verification from your university that your course of study is a five year program and that you will have four full years remaining. Contact the Army Professor of Military Science (PMS) at your university for a copy of a planned academic program worksheet.
Have no moral obligations or personal conviction that will prevent you from: -- Supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
-- Conscientiously bearing arms.
Satisfactorily explain any record of arrest and/or civil conviction.
Have a minimum high school GPA of 2.5
Receive at least a minimum SAT score of 920 or an ACT composite score of 19.
You are required to pass the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) at the Army standard of 60 points in each event for a total of at least 180 points to be eligible for a scholarship. The APFT consists of repetitive push-ups, sit-ups, and a two-mile run. Good physical conditioning and muscle tone are essential.

Selection Criteria

Results of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT). You must achieve a minimum SAT score of 920 (composite of Verbal and Math) or an American College Test (ACT) composite score of 19 to qualify for competition. If you take both the SAT and ACT, please furnish the results of both test to this office - your best score will be used.
You must have a high school GPA of 2.5 or higher.
Extracurricular participation, athletic activities, and leadership positions held. If you have held part-time jobs during the school year and do not have the time for extensiveparticipation in sports and extracurricular activities, you will be given credit based on the number of hours you worked per week.
Personal interview. It is very important that you apply to the schools you list on your application. Your information will only be given to the Professor of Military Science (PMS) at the schools you have listed if you become an interviewee. The PMS will then contact you for an interview.