So here is the problem: the scholarships given by the Army are determined by the year that you graduate from dental school and since all dental schools are four years, except one, they give all scholarships away for the graduating class in four years. This is a problem because I want to go the only three-year school in the nation. My graduating class is 2015, which means that the Army gave away the 2015 scholarships in 2011. To top it off, I had been working with the recruiter since June 2011 and notified them that I wanted to go to a three year school and that they should get things going so it would all work out. I think the recruiter didn't believe I would get into the three-year school (University of the Pacific, or UOP) so he didn't do anything until December, when I received my acceptance letter to UOP. He then started telling me that I couldn't go to UOP with the Army because they were not providing a scholarship to that school. I did a little digging and called up some other recruiters, and found out the Army is still proving scholarships to UOP. When I told my recruiter what I found out he wasn't too happy but reluctantly said he could make it happen.

TBC