Career In Meteorology

How does the military pay for college?

Okay, so I am a junior in high school and I have a 2.33 gpa on a 4.0 scale and I know that's not the best ever and I really want to persue a career in aerospace engineering or meteorology and I'm looking at both the air force academy and the university of Oklahoma (both are out of state). I wanna know how and what I would have to do to get the air force to pay for my college and what the requirements are.

Public Comments

1. They pay using Monopoly money
2. Robert, The military is famous, or perhaps I should say infamous, for not getting around to paying for your education. You cannot trust what recuiters tell you about that, either. They get paid according to how many rucruits they get, and are under a lot of pressure to get as many as possible. But the military does pay for some. I don't know what they do to get it, beyond the basic rule that you must give the military four or more years, depending on how long your schooling is. I have a friend who became a dentist in the Air Force. She had to stay in the Air Force for 8 years and be a dentist for them to have them pay. Now, of course, she got her education paid for by working for them IN the service. If you want to get your education paid for AFTER being in the service, then it would be harder to get them to actually pay. The service will educate people on their dime if they are the best and the brightest. Your 2.33 says you would have to work very hard to get the military to pay for your education while you were in the service. You do have the rest of this year, and next year to pull up your grades to as high as they can go, which would make you an excellent candidate. The military does need engineers of all sorts, and I'm sure they need meteorologists, too. I know that's your choice, but is it your aptitude? Those are both heavily math-related professions. Is it your non-math subjects you fell down in? There are apitiude tests you can take to help you decide. Ask your school counselor if the school gives them. This is the time to begin checking out all your possibilities. Go full-force ahead. And do at least talk to several service recruiters for advance information. You will fnd some answers on their websites. Ask especially now what influence bringing up your grades will have on your chances to be educated while IN the military. With your 2.33 you might be educated in the military, but not in your profession of choice -or not at all. Get all the information you can get, and keep notes on what they say. Take the notes in front of them and notice their reaction to that. It will give you some clue to how honest the person is being with you.
3. With such a low GPA it is unlikely you could get into the Air Force Academy unless you are a phenominal candidate in every other way (high SAT, lots of leadership positions, max the Candidate Fitness Assessment, highest marks from your Admission Liason Officer Interview, primary nomination from congressman) I would look into a ROTC scholarship. Again your low GPA may keep you from receiving one right away, but you can reapply in the following years. You can start talking to the Det at Oklahoma to get a better idea of how that works. (link in sources)