1) Ensure you complete your DODMERB screening in order to activate your scholarship for beginning of the Fall Semester.

2) Be on the look out for sign up requirements for both New Student Indoctrination (held at Great Lakes, IL by Naval Service Training Command) and our New Student Orientation (held in Boulder, the week before move-in week).

3) Ensure you are in good physical shape! Navy Midshipmen will run an introductory PFA and Marine Midshipmen will run an introductory Physical Fitness Test upon your arrival. Additionally, stay healthy! Injuries and significant changes in health can affect the activation of your scholarship.

4) Stay on top of all your university enrollment requirements. Our staff is here to train you, educate you, and ensure you are administratively prepared to activate your scholarship. We cannot get you housing, setup your meal plan, get you parking, or enroll you in classes. Our expectation is you fulfill all university requirements in a timely manner to properly participate in our program. 

5) Lastly - stay out of trouble! 

Our program is rich in history, located in the center of Boulder, includes over 30 Active Duty students, possesses a highly qualified and experienced staff, and continuously commissions "Fleet ready" Ensigns and Second Lieutenants.

2) We train at altitude! Few units in the country have the potential to train at the elevation our olympians train at. Our environment provides us superior training opportunities that are responsible for our students' success at Officer Candidate School, SEAL and EOD cruises, and their general PT scores!

3) We train officers by holding you to the standard of a junior officer. We provide you our expectations and the challenge is then on you to meet them! This means more responsibility, leadership opportunities, and a greater ability to find your own balance between school, work, and NROTC requirements. In order to be successful in our unit our students must develop a strong sense of ownership and initiative (the same expectations that will make you successful as an officer in the Navy or Marine Corps). 

While we love the support and investment you have in your son or daughter's success, we encourage you (as a parent) to encourage them (as your son or daughter) to contact us directly! We will be working directly with them in the near future and the foundation of that relationship starts now. Initiative and ownership are the two most important lessons a young leader can learn and they will be the expectations of all our freshmen starting on their very first day. At the same time, we do still expect you as parents to have questions! All members of the family are welcome to join for tours and meetings with our staff (though official interviews will be done one-on-one) and we look forward to meeting you!

Start the process at the beginning of summer before your high school senior year. The Navy Recruiting Command and Headquarters, Marine Corps accept and process all NROTC scholarship applications. Go to https://www.nrotc.navy.mil to start the application process. The Navy Recruiting Command or Headquarters, Marine Corps will notify you of the results of the scholarship selection board.

If you do not receive a national scholarship, you can apply to join as a non-scholarship College Program (Basic Standing) student. As a College Program (Basic Standing) student, you can apply for a three-year scholarship when you have three years of college remaining and a two-year scholarship when you have two years of college remaining. The staff at the NROTC will assist you in preparing the application. If you receive a scholarship and accept it, you incur the same obligation as a national scholarship recipient.