Last visit was: 19 Nov 2025, 09:51 It is currently 19 Nov 2025, 09:51
Home
GMAT
Messages
Tests
Schools
Events
Rewards
Chat
My Profile
Close
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.

Customized
for You

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History

Track
Your Progress

every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance

Practice
Pays

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Go to My Error Log Learn more
Close
Request Expert Reply
Confirm Cancel
avatar
usmabama
avatar
Joined: 20 Mar 2012
Last visit: 14 Jul 2015
Posts: 109
Own Kudos:
24
Given Kudos: 93
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, Marketing
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
GPA: 3.25
WE:Military Officer (Military & Defense)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
Posts: 109
Kudos: 24
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 25 Mar 2015, 14:53
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Does anyone know how Merit-based scholarships work with the GI Bill? If I have a 100% percent of the GI Bill and I get a scholarship for 1/2 tuition - do I still get the scholarship money?
User avatar
DLEmba
User avatar
Joined: 17 Dec 2013
Last visit: 03 May 2016
Posts: 102
Own Kudos:
38
Given Kudos: 14
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, General Management
Schools: Duke '17 (M)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V38
Schools: Duke '17 (M)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V38
Posts: 102
Kudos: 38
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 25 Mar 2015, 16:09
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
usmabama
Does anyone know how Merit-based scholarships work with the GI Bill? If I have a 100% percent of the GI Bill and I get a scholarship for 1/2 tuition - do I still get the scholarship money?
Show more
It depends on how much money you get with the GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon, and it depends on the scholarship. I am 100% GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon and got a scholarship at Yale. Yale told me that even though I had 100% of tuition covered I could use the money for cost of living. But I've seen some schools say scholarships are "tuition and fees only". Plus a lot of schools have a max of 20k Yellow Ribbon, so if tuition is 65k and you get 20k GI Bill, 20K Yellow Ribbon from the school, and 20k from the VA match, then you'd still owe 5k each year, so the scholarship would at least cover that last bit plus fees... You can always call the school and ask, that's what I did.
avatar
usmabama
avatar
Joined: 20 Mar 2012
Last visit: 14 Jul 2015
Posts: 109
Own Kudos:
24
Given Kudos: 93
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, Marketing
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
GPA: 3.25
WE:Military Officer (Military & Defense)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
Posts: 109
Kudos: 24
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 25 Mar 2015, 16:17
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
DLEmba
usmabama
Does anyone know how Merit-based scholarships work with the GI Bill? If I have a 100% percent of the GI Bill and I get a scholarship for 1/2 tuition - do I still get the scholarship money?
It depends on how much money you get with the GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon, and it depends on the scholarship. I am 100% GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon and got a scholarship at Yale. Yale told me that even though I had 100% of tuition covered I could use the money for cost of living. But I've seen some schools say scholarships are "tuition and fees only". Plus a lot of schools have a max of 20k Yellow Ribbon, so if tuition is 65k and you get 20k GI Bill, 20K Yellow Ribbon from the school, and 20k from the VA match, then you'd still owe 5k each year, so the scholarship would at least cover that last bit plus fees... You can always call the school and ask, that's what I did.
Show more

Thanks DLEmba...R2 is going better than R1 for me.

I was going to call the school and ask, but I just received the good news this evening. I'll call them tomorrow.

Have you decided to matriculate at Yale? I'm waiting to hear from them on Friday...
avatar
usmabama
avatar
Joined: 20 Mar 2012
Last visit: 14 Jul 2015
Posts: 109
Own Kudos:
24
Given Kudos: 93
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, Marketing
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
GPA: 3.25
WE:Military Officer (Military & Defense)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Kellogg '17 (D) Duke '17 (WA) Yale '17 (WL) Tepper '17 (A$) Ross '17 (A) Darden '17 (M$) HBS '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V35
Posts: 109
Kudos: 24
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 26 Mar 2015, 07:09
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
For those curious:

Talked to UVA and it does depend on the institution, but Darden allows vets to combine both the GI Bill and scholarship... even if you qualify for 100% of the GI Bill.
User avatar
DLEmba
User avatar
Joined: 17 Dec 2013
Last visit: 03 May 2016
Posts: 102
Own Kudos:
38
Given Kudos: 14
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, General Management
Schools: Duke '17 (M)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V38
Schools: Duke '17 (M)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V38
Posts: 102
Kudos: 38
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 26 Mar 2015, 07:40
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
usmabama
DLEmba
usmabama
Does anyone know how Merit-based scholarships work with the GI Bill? If I have a 100% percent of the GI Bill and I get a scholarship for 1/2 tuition - do I still get the scholarship money?
It depends on how much money you get with the GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon, and it depends on the scholarship. I am 100% GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon and got a scholarship at Yale. Yale told me that even though I had 100% of tuition covered I could use the money for cost of living. But I've seen some schools say scholarships are "tuition and fees only". Plus a lot of schools have a max of 20k Yellow Ribbon, so if tuition is 65k and you get 20k GI Bill, 20K Yellow Ribbon from the school, and 20k from the VA match, then you'd still owe 5k each year, so the scholarship would at least cover that last bit plus fees... You can always call the school and ask, that's what I did.

Thanks DLEmba...R2 is going better than R1 for me.

I was going to call the school and ask, but I just received the good news this evening. I'll call them tomorrow.

Have you decided to matriculate at Yale? I'm waiting to hear from them on Friday...
Show more
That's good to hear about UVA. I declined Yale and accepted Fuqua. I was originally waitlisted at Tuck and made it in on the November round, so I have another month to decide if I want to take Tuck and decline Fuqua. I'm going to go to Tuck's admitted students weekend next month to see if it helps with the decision.
User avatar
CobraKai
User avatar
Joined: 23 Oct 2012
Last visit: 30 Nov 2022
Posts: 785
Own Kudos:
329
Given Kudos: 175
Status:Too close for missiles, switching to guns.
Location: United States
Schools: Johnson (Cornell) - Class of 2015
WE:Military Officer (Military & Defense)
Schools: Johnson (Cornell) - Class of 2015
Posts: 785
Kudos: 329
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 27 Mar 2015, 08:05
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
DLEmba

That's good to hear about UVA. I declined Yale and accepted Fuqua. I was originally waitlisted at Tuck and made it in on the November round, so I have another month to decide if I want to take Tuck and decline Fuqua. I'm going to go to Tuck's admitted students weekend next month to see if it helps with the decision.
Show more

Congrats on getting off the Tuck WL - especially so early. I dangled in purgatory all the way until the summer. Unless New England winters are unbearable for you, I'm going to think you'll like Tuck after ASW. ;)
avatar
MBA18
avatar
Joined: 18 Feb 2015
Last visit: 26 Aug 2016
Posts: 11
Own Kudos:
8
Given Kudos: 23
Posts: 11
Kudos: 8
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 01 Apr 2015, 07:21
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Curious if anyone applied through the Consortium. How does it work if the schools you are applying to waive the application fee for service members?
avatar
fbpointgod10
avatar
Joined: 22 Mar 2014
Last visit: 15 Oct 2015
Posts: 85
Own Kudos:
31
Given Kudos: 19
Concentration: Operations, Strategy
Schools: Sloan '17 (M) Duke '17 (A) Kellogg '17 (A) Cnsrtm-Haas '17 (A) Cnsrtm-Tuck '17 (D) Cnsrtm-Darden '17 (A) Cnsrtm-McCombs '17 (A) Wharton '17 (A) Stanford '17 (D)
GMAT 1: 690 Q45 V40
GMAT 2: 710 Q45 V41
GPA: 3
WE:Engineering (Military & Defense)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Sloan '17 (M) Duke '17 (A) Kellogg '17 (A) Cnsrtm-Haas '17 (A) Cnsrtm-Tuck '17 (D) Cnsrtm-Darden '17 (A) Cnsrtm-McCombs '17 (A) Wharton '17 (A) Stanford '17 (D)
GMAT 2: 710 Q45 V41
Posts: 85
Kudos: 31
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 06 Apr 2015, 15:07
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Anyone withdrawing from Haas, Kellogg, Wharton, or Sloan?
User avatar
sgtteddy007
User avatar
Joined: 12 Apr 2015
Last visit: 11 Jul 2020
Posts: 4
Own Kudos:
5
Location: United States
Schools: Kellogg '22 (M$) Ross '22 (A$) Booth '22 (A)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Kellogg '22 (M$) Ross '22 (A$) Booth '22 (A)
Posts: 4
Kudos: 5
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 12 Apr 2015, 21:15
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
If someone could help guide me with a situation I am facing...I am looking to transition out of the military in spring of 2017 and to start B school in fall of 2017. My main issue is that I plan to be on deployment from fall of 2016 to spring of 2017. I do not anticipate having problems with the paperwork portions of the application, but I feel like if I am invited to an interview it would be tough to interview via videochat from some terrible wifi hotspot in who knows where. Also, it would be tough to communicate with your liaisons at the schools because everything would have to be done via e-mail. Does anyone have any experience with this?
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
 [1]
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
 [1]
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 13 Apr 2015, 07:31
1
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
sgtteddy007
If someone could help guide me with a situation I am facing...I am looking to transition out of the military in spring of 2017 and to start B school in fall of 2017. My main issue is that I plan to be on deployment from fall of 2016 to spring of 2017. I do not anticipate having problems with the paperwork portions of the application, but I feel like if I am invited to an interview it would be tough to interview via videochat from some terrible wifi hotspot in who knows where. Also, it would be tough to communicate with your liaisons at the schools because everything would have to be done via e-mail. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Show more

I had several classmates in that situation and have worked with a handful of clients who had to go through the same thing. Schools aren't going to penalize you for interviewing via Skype or sat phone if that's your only option.
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 14 Apr 2015, 19:01
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
FROM MilitaryToBusiness.com: Tuck Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) - Military Visit Day 2015


The Tuck Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) and Tuck Admissions cordially invite you to participate in our annual Military Visit Day on Monday, May 4, 2015. We have a full day planned, including a class visit, panels with current Tuck veterans, Admissions, Financial Aid, and the Career Development Office, and a tour of the Tuck campus. 

Registration and breakfast start the day at 7:30 a.m. Plan to stay until 3:00 p.m. The AFAA will host an informal social the night before and there’s an opportunity to meet more Tuck students, both military and civilian, at Microbrews & the Military from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on May 4.

To see all our events and to register, please visit our website: https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/connect-with-us/attend-an-event.
This Blog post was imported into the forum automatically. We hope you found it helpful. Please use the Kudos button if you did, or please PM/DM me if you found it disruptive and I will take care of it. -BB
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 30 Apr 2015, 14:32
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Fall 2016 matriculation thread now open here: calling-all-us-military-fall-2016-applicants-197155.html
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 05 May 2015, 16:07
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
One final solicitation...

The MilitaryToBusiness blog is always looking for useful content from people who have been through the application process--so if you're interested in writing a quick blog post (or two) about your experiences please send a PM my way. We'd greatly appreciate you passing on any advice that you think would be helpful for others who are getting ready to apply this fall, and those future applicants will be very grateful for anything you can give us.

Same thing if you want to contribute anything based on your first semester at school....the transition from military to academic environment, the recruiting process, social scene, academics, or whatever. We can keep things completely anonymous if that's your preference.
User avatar
sgtteddy007
User avatar
Joined: 12 Apr 2015
Last visit: 11 Jul 2020
Posts: 4
Own Kudos:
5
Location: United States
Schools: Kellogg '22 (M$) Ross '22 (A$) Booth '22 (A)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Kellogg '22 (M$) Ross '22 (A$) Booth '22 (A)
Posts: 4
Kudos: 5
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 05 May 2015, 18:12
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Anyone have any experience with low GPAs and applying into business school? Looking at the schools I want to attend, I am achieving an average GMAT score (their median), but my undergraduate GPA is a 3.14 which MAYBE squeezes me into their middle 80%. My situation is I was a STEM major at a Service Academy while lettering in hockey for four years which takes up a lot of your normal studying time and energy (maybe not the best excuse). Is that something I should work to address in an essay?
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 06 May 2015, 09:12
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
sgtteddy007
Anyone have any experience with low GPAs and applying into business school? Looking at the schools I want to attend, I am achieving an average GMAT score (their median), but my undergraduate GPA is a 3.14 which MAYBE squeezes me into their middle 80%. My situation is I was a STEM major at a Service Academy while lettering in hockey for four years which takes up a lot of your normal studying time and energy (maybe not the best excuse). Is that something I should work to address in an essay?
Show more

I had three clients admitted to HBS this go-round with GPAs in the ~3.2 range...one was a service academy aero major, one was an econ major at a top tier private school, and one was a Mech-E major at a state school. So it is doable, and schools do take into account the degree of difficulty bit for majors as well as the other demands on your time during your undergrad years.

Here's a few things you can do between now and application time to offset the GPA concern and make yourself more competitive for your stretch schools:

-Retake the GMAT and shoot for well beyond their median. A 750ish score (especially if evenly balanced between Q and V) will help your admissions odds significantly compared to a ~700, and if you're applying to public schools like UVA, Haas, UCLA, Michigan, etc. it'll greatly help your chances of getting scholarship offers.
-Build an alternative transcript, even if it's just community college or online courses or something like MBAMath.com. Any courses you can take along the lines of statistics, finance, and accounting will help.

Otherwise, just keep working on your personal story (i.e. what makes you unique relative to the other 500 military applicants at a given school) and your whole why MBA/why school XYZ story.
User avatar
Cody J
User avatar
Joined: 15 Feb 2014
Last visit: 10 May 2015
Posts: 12
Own Kudos:
5
Given Kudos: 1
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship
Schools: Kellogg '18 Anderson '18 Tuck '18 Foster '18 Darden '18
GPA: 3.72
WE:Analyst (Military & Defense)
Schools: Kellogg '18 Anderson '18 Tuck '18 Foster '18 Darden '18
Posts: 12
Kudos: 5
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 08 May 2015, 19:03
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
EBM
sgtteddy007
Anyone have any experience with low GPAs and applying into business school? Looking at the schools I want to attend, I am achieving an average GMAT score (their median), but my undergraduate GPA is a 3.14 which MAYBE squeezes me into their middle 80%. My situation is I was a STEM major at a Service Academy while lettering in hockey for four years which takes up a lot of your normal studying time and energy (maybe not the best excuse). Is that something I should work to address in an essay?

I had three clients admitted to HBS this go-round with GPAs in the ~3.2 range...one was a service academy aero major, one was an econ major at a top tier private school, and one was a Mech-E major at a state school. So it is doable, and schools do take into account the degree of difficulty bit for majors as well as the other demands on your time during your undergrad years.

Here's a few things you can do between now and application time to offset the GPA concern and make yourself more competitive for your stretch schools:

-Retake the GMAT and shoot for well beyond their median. A 750ish score (especially if evenly balanced between Q and V) will help your admissions odds significantly compared to a ~700, and if you're applying to public schools like UVA, Haas, UCLA, Michigan, etc. it'll greatly help your chances of getting scholarship offers.
-Build an alternative transcript, even if it's just community college or online courses or something like MBAMath.com. Any courses you can take along the lines of statistics, finance, and accounting will help.

Otherwise, just keep working on your personal story (i.e. what makes you unique relative to the other 500 military applicants at a given school) and your whole why MBA/why school XYZ story.
Show more

Where did you get your ~500 military applicants number? I am curious just what % of top 15 school applicants are actually military and what % of that get accepted.
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 08 May 2015, 19:11
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Just a random number, though it's probably not too far off for the larger full-time programs like HBS and Wharton.

As far as I know, no schools release demographic or industry information about their applicant pool--they only release profiles for their admitted classes. I've also never heard anything to indicate that admit rates for military applicants are appreciably different than admit rates for any other populations.
User avatar
Cody J
User avatar
Joined: 15 Feb 2014
Last visit: 10 May 2015
Posts: 12
Own Kudos:
5
Given Kudos: 1
Location: United States
Concentration: Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship
Schools: Kellogg '18 Anderson '18 Tuck '18 Foster '18 Darden '18
GPA: 3.72
WE:Analyst (Military & Defense)
Schools: Kellogg '18 Anderson '18 Tuck '18 Foster '18 Darden '18
Posts: 12
Kudos: 5
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 08 May 2015, 20:25
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Oh alright, I understand now. I haven't seen much in regards to those statistics either, it would be great if someone was able to find them!
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 12 May 2015, 07:01
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
FROM MilitaryToBusiness.com: Impacts of Section 702 of the "Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act" -- Will the GI Bill be there for you?




Section 702 of the “Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act” has made substantial changes that are going to have a significant impact on many Veterans relying on the Post 9/11 GI bill. 

1. Public schools are required to grant in-state tuition and fee status to all Veterans who served greater than ninety days on active duty after 9/11 and are within three years of their effective separation date, or to their spouses or children using transferred benefits, or a recipient of the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship that live in the state of the school.

2. The enforcement mechanism to schools and states is that the VA will not pay ANY post 9/11 benefits to ANYONE attending a state school that does not comply.

3. Some Veterans will likely lose their benefits completely (because some states and schools will not comply in time for their degree to be complete). 

4. Many more Veterans will likely lose their benefits for a period of time until states and schools come into compliance, and will be responsible for paying their own tuition and fees for that period. They will NOT be reimbursed based on current guidelines. 

5. This loss of benefits will affect veterans currently enrolled at a non-compliant school. Even if they previously qualified as in state, or for the Yellow Ribbon program, they will lose any Post 9/11 benefits until the school becomes compliant. 

6. The secretary of the VA could potentially waive these requirements, but it does not appear likely. The VA states: “VA is in the process of developing waiver criteria for States that are actively pursuing changes to comply with these provisions. More information regarding the waiver criteria will be included in a regulation published in the Federal Register… However, at this time we do not currently have a projected date for this publication. 

7. In a non-compliant state, Veterans selecting a school may actually save money over the course of their degree by attending a private school that participates in the Yellow Ribbon program versus a non-compliant state school, even if the school becomes compliant as little as one month late, because the GI bill benefits will not re-commence until the next term. 

8. Veterans need to make state legislatures and school residency certifying offices aware of this impending challenge, they are the ones capable of fixing it. 

9. Most schools and even the VA GI bill help center are still working through what this means, and the effective date of 1 July 2015 is rapidly approaching. 

What can Veterans do? 

1. Check and see if your state is compliant. The VA’s site for reference is here: 
https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/702.asp

2. This site is more visually pleasing and has more information, but has some accuracy errors, be sure to double check with the VA site. ( https://www.vetshq.com/education-student ... ates/)

3. If your state is compliant, congratulations, just pass the word to your fellow Veterans whose states may not be. 

4. If your state is not compliant, read and understand the detailed version of this info paper with appendices, the VA fact sheet, the VA FAQ, and the legislation itself (all appended in the long version of this document). You will likely need to know it to teach others. 

5. Monitor the VA Section 702 web page and the FAQ for the possibility of a decision on a waiver. If one occurs learn its conditions quickly. ( https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/702.asp) 

6. Check your state’s legislative webpage, for example, this is North Carolina’s, there is usually a bill search tool. I found “Veterans Tuition” to be a good search term, check the dates and see where a bill to require compliance in process. NC’s is in committee and has been for a month. 
(https://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/SiteSearch/SiteSearch.asp?cx=016444635331331191208%3A2jn1cirfegg&cof=FORID%3A11&q=veterans+tuition&sa=Go)

7. Write to the appropriate state legislature (especially the bill’s sponsors, committees etc.) to accelerate the pace, educate them on the possible consequences. 

8. Write to the state school’s office that determines in-state eligibility and encourage them to unilaterally grant in state tuition status for “covered persons” without waiting on the legislatures. 

9. Write to the VA Sect 702 team to encourage them to move up their timeline for waiver planning from “indefinite” to “prior to 1 July 2015” so we won’t have to pay out of pocket. (Section702.Vbavaco@va.gov) 

10. Write to news outlets to educate them about the impending impact and the responsible offices that could correct the problems. 

11. Write to your US Congressmen and request they intervene and require the VA to waive the penalty that will fall on Veterans, by allowing currently enrolled and admitted students to use their benefits at their schools, even if they are not yet compliant.

12. Plan for the worst, prepare alternative funding for the possibility of the state legislature, state schools and VA’s failures to address the issue by the deadline, and consider a private school with a Yellow Ribbon program as an alternative. Run the numbers and compare costs. 

13. Get your fellow Veterans to do the same (feel free to re-paste this anywhere you like). The clock is ticking.
This Blog post was imported into the forum automatically. We hope you found it helpful. Please use the Kudos button if you did, or please PM/DM me if you found it disruptive and I will take care of it. -BB
User avatar
EBM
User avatar
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Last visit: 19 Apr 2024
Posts: 750
Own Kudos:
163
Given Kudos: 6
Affiliations: HBS Class of 2013
Location: United States (TX)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Schools: HBS '13 (A)
Posts: 750
Kudos: 163
Calling all US Military Fall 2015 Applicants! 30 May 2015, 19:01
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
FROM MilitaryToBusiness.com: New Stanford GSB and former Naval Officer joins the MilitaryToBusiness admission consulting team


Military applications to top business schools continue to become more competitive with more and more applicants. To meet your demand, we have added our 21st consultant to the team... and also our first team member from Stanford GSB to outweigh the heavy Harvard presence. 

Colin is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a former Naval Surface Warfare Officer. Colin joined a top 3 management consulting firm after graduation. While at the GSB, Colin worked at the Boston Consulting Group as well as several Stanford startups. Colin served as Co-President of both the Management Consulting Club and the Outdoor Association in addition to being the applicant liaison for the Stanford GSB Veterans Club.  In addition to his MBA from Stanford, Colin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from the United State Naval Academy, and a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Energy Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park.

During his time at the GSB, Colin also served in the US Navy Reserves. Colin has a wife and two little boys and can speak to balancing a demanding MBA program with the obligations of a family.  By gaining acceptance into three leading MBA programs and working with numerous vets on their applications, Colin gained invaluable experience to help veterans apply to business school.  Colin is passionate about helping all vets succeed during their transition from the military as well as growing the veteran presence at top at top business schools. 

To reach our team, please contact us here. 
This Blog post was imported into the forum automatically. We hope you found it helpful. Please use the Kudos button if you did, or please PM/DM me if you found it disruptive and I will take care of it. -BB
   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8