I spoke with Recruiters yesterday and will be seeing them agian next week.
I'm a little confused about college and the training I will have to do.
Do I go to college for pre-med and medical school before I get my training or do I do it after the AIT?
I want to stay in Colorado but there are only two colleges that have a pre-med program and neither of them have an ROTC program. Is that OK? I'd like to take it but I really would like to take pre-med and get into medical school.

How much college have you completed so far? About the ROTC if there is another school nearby that offers ROTC then there should already be a partnership inplace between the two school that will allow you to take the ROTC at the other school. If you are enlisting then you will have to attend Basic within 365days.

I haven't started any college yet. That would be really cool about the partnership I would have to look into that. I have not yet enlisted but I do have braces so it all depends on when I get those taken off.

All of the colleges that have an ROTC program are hours away from the school I will be going to.

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Originally posted by Crys10:
All of the colleges that have an ROTC program are hours away from the school I will be going to.

Talk to the closest school they may be able to work something out. Let them know you what school you plan on attending and that you want to do SMP

Thank you. I will do that. I'll let you know how that goes.
The school I want to go to is in Alamosa, CO and all the schools with ROTC are around Denver and CO Springs. 3-4 hours away.

One other thing you can do is sit down and talk to the student advisor at the med school you want to attend and see what there req. are for their med school program. And see if they can be achieved at the schools that offer ROTC. You would be surprised at how many supposed pre-med programs make you take classes that you don't need or don't give you the classes you need. I would personally pick your top 3 med school choices and go over all there reqs so if you don't make it into one, you have a chance at the other. Also see what schools they will accept classes from and so forth. Sometimes they may not take out of state courses or community college credits and other stupid little exclusions that you didn't think of. I had a friend that started med school last year and even though he got a "pre-med degree" the med school he applied to had more req's than what classes he took so he had to put med school off for a year to meet all the req. Have you checked into the Uniformed Services University? http://www.usuhs.mil They have a fully accredited med school and you can get a nice monthly stipend plus FREE tuition. Just think after you serve your enlistment time not having any debt after like 6-8 years (sorry im not to sure of the exact enlistment length req) I am not an expert but I did alot of personal research as I have a somewhat similar goal set. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think you have to do ROTC you can just do OCS after you finish your degree. Correct me if I'm wrong? (please) Anyway good luck and let us know what you figure out. Ohh by the way I went ahead and enlisted with the college first program so I can get my Bachelors degree for free with the tuition waiver while being non-deployable and then when I meet the reqs for OCS I plan on going into active duty and hopefully get accepted to the med school program through the army or a private school.

Wow that sounds really good too. There's only two colleges in my state that even have a pre-med program and the other besides Adams State is Regis University and it's a private school and costs 7 times more and I can only get so much money to go there and it's only the federal stuff. So that's my big dilemma. I don't have to do ROTC but I wanted to. I could go without if I had to but I will check into the USU. Thanks

If the private school has ROTC you can get a GRFD scholarship that would pay all your tuition.

What is that?

It is a ROTC scholarship from the Guard. It can be used to pay for room and board, or Tuition.

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Originally posted by gripper78:
It is a ROTC scholarship from the Guard. It can be used to pay for room and board, or Tuition.

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/78192862/m/6800098471001 Here is a link to a sticky that has a listing of some of the other programs for loan repayment and scholarships

Every state's tuition assistance is different, but most will pay for 15 or more credits per semester, no matter what level of education. You most likely will have to wait until after AIT to be able to get the TA.
Also, ROTC scholarships are a dime a dozen these days, and come with far more restrictions than TA.
Good luck!

Pre-med and pre-law degrees are worthless, especially pre-law as you can get into any law school with any major.

As for pre-med, you'd be better off getting a science major and just completing all the typical pre-req's needed for any med school. Just check the website of some of the bigger name medical schools. If you can fulfill their requirements, chances are you can fulfill any medical school's requirement.

A lot of schools don't even suggest a pre-med program because they offer no preference or advantage. I'd rather strengthen my resume with a solid bachelor's in a substantial field.

And what is your back up plan if you don't get into a medical school or you do horribly on the MCATs? Your degree is premed? I dunno, just my two cents.