Air Force Medical Scholarships
- The Air Force ROTC offers three distinct types of scholarship for candidates. Type 7 AFROTC scholarships pay for the cost of a student's tuition up to the rate that would be charged to a state resident. Type 2 scholarships pay for the cost of a student's tuition up to $18,000 per year. Type 1 will pay the full cost of a student's tuition, with no cap on the award. Type 1 and 2 scholarships also provide money to help pay for a student's lab fees.
- In addition to paying for a student's college tuition, an Air Force ROTC scholarship also provides a recipient with other financial benefits. The most prominent financial benefit of an AFROTC scholarship, besides tuition, is the personal allowance that begins at the level of $300 per month for freshman recipients and eventually grows into a stipend of $500 per month. AFROTC scholarships for medical students also provide a recipient with up to $900 for textbooks every year.
- To be eligible for an Air Force ROTC medical scholarship, applicants must be between the ages of 17 and 26 when they apply. Eligible applicants must also be U.S. citizens and must have no moral objection to bearing arms. Lastly, an applicant must have a high school GPA of at least 2.5, and must have scored either a 24 on the combined ACT exam or an 1100 on the combined SAT.
- Even though they may be serving the Air Force as a nurse or doctor, applicants for an AFROTC medical scholarship still need to meet the same physical standards of any other AFROTC scholarship recipient.
This means that an AFROTC medical scholarship applicants must submit to a physical medical examination and eye exam that finds her free of disqualifying medical conditions and vision problems. In addition, an applicant must conform to certain height and body fat ratio standards set out by the Air Force, and must pass a physical fitness test.