Scholarship Eligibility Requirements and Selection Criteria

• Be a United States citizen.

• Be 17 years of age within the first semester of your freshman year, and must not reach your 31st birthday by 31 December of the year in which you will graduate from college and receive your commission.

• Be a high school graduate or possess an equivalent certificate before September of the year you will enter college. If you are taking or have taken college courses, you must be considered a beginning Freshman and have 4 academic years remaining for a baccalaureate degree upon enrollment in the fall of the year you will enter college.

• If you are in an accelerated program and will complete your senior year of high school and first year of college concurrently - you must have 4 academic years remaining in an approved baccalaureate degree program upon enrollment in the fall.

• If you are a college freshman in a documented five year program with 4 years remaining in fall, you must submit verification from your university that your course of study is a five year program and that you will have four full years remaining. Contact the Army Professor of Military Science (PMS) at your university for a copy of a planned academic program worksheet.

• Have no moral obligations or personal conviction that will prevent you from:  1. Supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies - foreign and domestic.
2. Conscientiously bearing arms.

• Satisfactorily explain any record of arrest and/or civil conviction.

• Have a minimum high school GPA of 2.5

• Receive at least a minimum SAT score of 920 or an ACT composite score of 19.

• All scholarship applicants' physical ability must be assessed.

• Extracurricular participation, athletic activities, and leadership positions held. If you have held part-time jobs during the school year and do not have the time for extensive participation in sports and extracurricular activities, you will be given credit based on the number of hours you worked per week.

• Personal interview. If you meet the requirements for scholarship, the PMS (Professor of Military Science) will then contact you for an interview.

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