COLLEGE STUDENT PRE-COMMISSIONING INITIATIVE (SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM)

Imagine having your college junior and senior years fully funded. Now imagine getting a salary while you complete your college degree.

That's what the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative (CSPI) scholarship program offers college sophomores and juniors. Better yet, this scholarship provides students with valuable leadership, management, law enforcement, navigation and marine science skills and training. It also provides full payment of school tuition, fees, textbooks, salary, medical insurance, and other benefits during a student's junior and senior year of college. The CSPI program's goal is to train future officers for success and prepare them for the rigors of Officer Candidate School (OCS).

Each student is expected to complete his/her degree and all Coast Guard training requirements within 24 months after acceptance into the program. Following successful completion of OCS, the students will be commissioned as Coast Guard officers, committed to 3 years of active duty service.

College students interested in pursuing this scholarship opportunity must have a completed packet submitted to your recruiter no later than 10 January 2011.

Coast Guard members interested in the program must have a completed packet submitted to their respective ESO no later than 22 November 2011.

For more information pertaining to deadlines, click here.

Benefits:

May pay up to two academic years of college tuition
Required textbook costs
Required fees paid for up to two academic years
Monthly salary of approximately $2,200
Medical and Life Insurance
30 days paid vacation per year
Leadership training

Application Eligibility Requirements:

SAT Reasoning Test: Combined 1100 on Mathematics and Critical Reading.
SAT (taken prior to 2004): Combined 1100 on Mathematics and Verbal.
ACT: Composite score of 23 or greater.
ASTB: 4 AQR/4PFAR.
SVAB: GT score of 109 or higher (110 prior to 1 Jul 04.) GT consists of combining the VE and AR scores.
Be between 19 and 27 (applicants must have reached their 19th birthday, but not their 28th birthday as of 30 September of the fiscal year in which the panel convenes.)
Must be a sophomore or junior undergraduate student enrolled or accepted for enrollment in a bachelor degree program at an accredited college or university designated as:

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) click here for accredited universities
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) click here for accredited universities
Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) click here for accredited universities
The following colleges and universities located in Guam, Hawaii and New Mexico:
        (a) University of Guam
        (b) University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hilo, and West Oahu
        (c) Argosy University - Hawaii
        (d) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture

Meet all physical requirements for a Coast Guard commission.
Maintain a GPA of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale.
Must be a U.S. citizen.

Your college or university not eligible for CSPI? You may be eligible for some of the Coast Guard's other commissioning programs, including Officer Candidate School. Talk to your recruiter or check out all of the Officer Programs.

If you are ready to apply for a Coast Guard officer program, you must download the forms and complete all that are appropriate for the program of interest.

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