Ivy League and the Service Academies megathread

[Gaffer]

Take a look at this current thread. Many common issues are addressed.

Thread 'United States Naval Academy vs Brown BS/MD'
https://www.serviceacademyforums.co...ed-states-naval-academy-vs-brown-bs-md.95252/

Your son should drill down in the primary sources, as well as contact the pre-med program people at USMA and USAFA, and talk to the recruiting officer at his target AROTC or AFROTC units, to determine how the medical school path works. He should be clear on whether his primary goal is medical school or military service, and if he wants nothing to do with non-medical paths in the military, ever, or would be willing to do that first. The SAs and ROTC programs primary mission is to produce warriors, though narrow paths exist to Med Corps.

There are also threads each year on going to medical school out of service academies and ROTC programs, as well as later in-service transfers, getting it and using veterans’ benefits to pay for medical school, going to the military medical school at USUHS and being active duty from Day I, taking advantage of the HPSP scholarships available for medical school (where the military gets most of its M.D.s. The Search function inside SAF can help, as can external Google searches that use the SAF URL in the search string.

Thank you so much Capt MJ. His passion is medicine and he wants to serve those who serve our country. He takes pride in our nation, and his heart is also in service through medicine. He did get into USAFA and USMA, some great Boston schools, and a couple of BSMD programs. SA's are a wonderful special experience ( he went for both summer SLE programs and loved every bit of it ) and the sense of fulfillment and camaraderie is beyond comparable. But since he aspires to serve through medicine, and I hear how tough it is through SA's, there are some concerns there.

The link shared is great. Thank you for your time. I'll do more research and read about it so I can be clear of the other options available. Appreciate your time

 

[Gaffer]

You can join ROTC as a sophomore.

I think some branches have programs to recruit medical students, and they'll graduate and commission as doctors in that branch after they finish medical school. Don't have to do ROTC in college to do these programs. There are similar programs for law students at law schools to become JAGs.

Are these the USUHS and HPSP Ivy22? or are there other ones that I need to look at? Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it