Anyone here ever gone through the ROTC to pay for college?

[binö]

Re first para: example of you turning an objective statement into hearsay and ad homs. Apparently you didn't get the joke. (Sorry, I'm only average intelligence, regardless of the schtick EF created for me.)

You need to keep your arguments straight. You specifically said "military guys"; now you're arguing officers from H? Dude, you can't change the hypo to fit your argument, man, lol. Would you like a list of fallacies?

bro i think this is a misunderstanding...ROTC become officers.
that is what this thread is about i thought, the title is anyway.
so therefore their are ROTC programs in a lot of colleges, i assume at ivy league schools too.
i don't think ROTC canidates are below to avg intelligence, probably moreso the higher end, esp in higher tiered schools.
now just regular enlisted bros? yeah i'd agree with your orginal statement...but calling ROTC bros dim or avg didn't jive with what i have personally witnessed (took a lotta rotc one credit classes in college, all taught by rotc bros, pretty sharp if you ask me)
now stop calling me a dumb faggot already

 

[samoth]

bro i think this is a misunderstanding...ROTC become officers.
that is what this thread is about i thought, the title is anyway.
so therefore their are ROTC programs in a lot of colleges, i assume at ivy league schools too.
i don't think ROTC canidates are below to avg intelligence, probably moreso the higher end, esp in higher tiered schools.
now just regular enlisted bros? yeah i'd agree with your orginal statement...but calling ROTC bros dim or avg didn't jive with what i have personally witnessed (took a lotta rotc one credit classes in college, all taught by rotc bros, pretty sharp if you ask me)
now stop calling me a dumb faggot already

Yeah, I was thinking of people that did the military route to pay for school but didn't do ROTC (along with ROTC doods), so you're right.

Hmm... only college [grad] officers... they'd probably be average, given the sample size of all unis. Non-four year non-officer would be below average to average. See, this is where I diverge from general interwebs IQ thinking where the curve is renormalized to 130. The average college kid is average IQ; just because we offer moar colleges and easier entrence reqs doesn't mean that everyone's objectively smarter (it likely means they're dumber). Teh curve is invariant to such changes, faggot, and 100 is still average, whether that 100 means factory work or white collar work.

TLDR: I maintain the argument that they're average, and your error is to consider that as a negative. Ergo we're arguing semantics.

 

[binö]

Yeah, I was thinking of people that did the military route to pay for school but didn't do ROTC (along with ROTC doods), so you're right.

Hmm... only college [grad] officers... they'd probably be average, given the sample size of all unis. Non-four year non-officer would be below average to average. See, this is where I diverge from general interwebs IQ thinking where the curve is renormalized to 130. The average college kid is average IQ; just because we offer moar colleges and easier entrence reqs doesn't mean that everyone's objectively smarter (it likely means they're dumber). Teh curve is invariant to such changes, faggot, and 100 is still average, whether that 100 means factory work or white collar work.

TLDR: I maintain the argument that they're average, and your error is to consider that as a negative. Ergo we're arguing semantics.

lol dick
i'd like to see java comment on this, i wonder if a ROTC bro can coast thru uni with a 2.0 or if their is stringent grade point avgs

 

[samoth]

lol dick
i'd like to see java comment on this, i wonder if a ROTC bro can coast thru uni with a 2.0 or if their is stringent grade point avgs

lol

I honestly don't know. I imagine they have to meet a median level, just as dumbass athletes do. Er, just as dumbass athletes have to. Just as FUCK. Fuck prepositions.

I'd also like to know the criteria needed for ROTC to enter into an agreement with a uni. Like, I know they're in publics and privates, but can any TTT have ROTC? Only 4 year unis? There are so many schools now, and a lot of them don't even have entrance requirements.

 

[javaguru]

lol dick
i'd like to see java comment on this, i wonder if a ROTC bro can coast thru uni with a 2.0 or if their is stringent grade point avgs

I'll add some things based on my experience at Ohio State Bino...

Most of my ROTC compatriots were above average students and a disproportionate number were in engineering programs,everyone on an ROTC scholarship I knew was in engineering. I was at a disadvantage competing for three and two year scholarships, even with a high ACT score (28 composite on the old ass exam) and being in the honors history program, because I wasn't in an engineering program. There were a lot of smart people in ROTC that struggled with the PT test and it's a pretty easy standard to meet...the program really did focus on grades and academic ability. I was on the Ranger Challenge team and most of us were prior service, we had several that served in the regiments, so I was probably closer to the neanderthal side of the view of ROTC. It was a common joke to talk about the program looking for general staff weenies over muddy boot soldiers that are real leaders...

The ivy league doesn't have ROTC because the culture is generally anti-military...they were kicked off campus during Vietnam and kept off over don't ask don't tell. We'll see what reason they use now that don't ask don't tell is going away...

It should be noted the military academies were recently named the best value in education....an ivy league education in exchange for service and the only real criticism is your instructors have masters degrees...

 

[javaguru]

Bump


Curious about the original posters thoughts on the thread.

 

[nimbus]

ruining
our
time (at)
college

 

[jiggagold]

I'd be at baseball practice and ROTC people would be watching me throw gas off the mounds with their sadface, then theyd grab their plastic hasbro rifle and stand in line up for what seemed like hours

 

[samoth]

The ivy league doesn't have ROTC

Patently false.

 

[javaguru]

Patently false.

People only care about Harvard and Yale....
Having off campus and on campus programs boils down to semantics...