Navy pilot/ROTC
 

The University I'm heading to doesn't have a NROTC program. Is there any thing that I can do to better my changes of earning a commission for the Aviation program after graduation? I already have a 2.9 GPA.

I just wrote a rec letter for a candidate who got selected for AOCS. This student had awesome grades, very mature, etc., etc. Do well in school, get some good rec letters, and you're 90% there.

Also get a study book and do well on the latest version of the AQT/FAR, whatever the aviation aptitude test is these days. Good grades, good score, and a good medical and you should be competitive.

Does being an Army Reservist with a Commercial license help any?
So basicaly have better than a 3.0?

What is your major? A 2.9 is worth more in a technical/science major than say business. You definitely want to get it above 3.0 and get the best possible recs and test scores (mind you, a quality rec isin't necessarily one from your congressman or senator or other such high vis people, but from someone who can tell the board who you are and why you would make a good OFFICER, not pilot). I know people who got into accepted with barely a 3.0 and others who got denied with 3.8, it all depends on whom you are competing against and how many they need when you get your look.

jsfboat,
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge

After several "no's" I finally got in and flew Navy. Being mil would speak well for you, flying skills:same. Don't quit. Good luck. Fair winds.

You need much better grades in today's environment... and in a technical degree.

ANG or Reserve?
 

Any thought about the ANG or AF or Navy Reserve? I've posted this before but the ANG and AF Reserve hire folks off the street all the time and send them to pilot training. Call any Guard or Resrve unit you may be interested in and ask questions about a pilot slot.

The Navy doesn't have anything like joining the ANG from the get go. To get reserve slots or FTS, have to do active duty time. That usually means 8 years after wings. There were a few case not to long ago, Navy trying to trim its numbers, sent guys out of flight school to the reserves but that is not the norm.

You can always join the Marines. 2.4 GPA and I am flying Hornets so there is hope. Just might have to do it PLC or OCC not NROTC. Good Luck.