Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Capt. Randy Preston of MIT's Navy ROTC says competition should not seem strange in what he called the nation's oldest meritocracy...
...Chen '00 said he found that educational delays and top jobs were uncertain prospects. After training in San Diego at the start of this summer, he left ROTC...
...sights set on working as a human-intelligence officer or as a lawyer in the military court, known as the Judge Advocate General-Corps (JAG). He thought that as a Harvard alumnus the likelihood of landing such a job would be high, but after one year at ROTC he said he felt his chances were sufficiently slim to warrant leaving the program...
Chen says he may not have investigated his options in depth before signing on to the ROTC four-year scholarship. He also says recruiters sometimes underplay the difficulties cadets encounter in vying for top-level job access...
Scholarships-which are currently given to more than 80 percent of all ROTC cadets at MIT-cover four years worth of tuition, a $100,000 value. (The Navy currently gives awards to all its ROTC cadets...