Your student walks into the board interview knowing how it will be read.
The scholarship interview is a short conversation with officers trained to evaluate people. Interview Preparation is focused coaching with a retired Army colonel, built around one outcome: a student with the confidence to answer any question authentically.
The board already read the file. The interview is where they decide.
Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force ROTC scholarship boards all put the student in front of an interview, and every branch scores it. The officer across the table is not collecting a recitation of achievements. The application already lists those.
The board is evaluating officer potential. Composure when a question has no prepared answer. Motivation that sounds like the student's own, not a parent's. Whether this high school senior could stand in front of a platoon in 4 years and be followed.
Most applicants prepare by collecting lists of likely questions. That is the wrong instrument. A board can step outside any list within the first 5 minutes, and students who memorized answers are the first to lose their footing. The students who do well are the ones who understand what is being scored and can be themselves under that scrutiny.
Confidence to answer any question authentically. That is the entire methodology.
A retired colonel who knows what the board is listening for.
COL Lee Reynolds (U.S. Army, Ret.)
Interview PreparationRetired Army colonel. Leads Interview Preparation: what the board evaluates, how to present your background, and how to handle difficult questions.
The preparation is personal to your student's record, not generic. Reynolds works through what the board evaluates, how your student presents their record, and how to stay composed under follow-up. No scripts. No stock answers. The goal is a student who can take any question, including one nobody predicted, and answer it as themselves.
3 disciplines, practiced until they hold.
Your file, read the way the board reads it
Reynolds starts with the application itself: transcript, activities, essays. He reads it the way a board member will and surfaces what a board would want to understand. Your student learns what their own record says before anyone asks them about it.
Live practice with a retired colonel
Everything runs 1:1 over Zoom. Your student sits across from a retired Army colonel and practices the real exchange: presenting their background, speaking to their own motivation, holding a conversation with a senior officer. The format alone settles most of the nerves.
Composure under follow-up questions
Boards probe. A first answer invites a second question, and the second is where composure shows. Reynolds presses into the follow-ups until your student can be pushed without losing the thread, and the answers stay authentic under pressure.
The Scholarship Track and Interview Preparation are available after the Blueprint.
The board will read your student quickly. Start with the Blueprint.
Interview Preparation opens after the ROTC Scholarship Blueprint. One hour with LTC Kirkland establishes where your student stands and what must improve before the board.
Schedule your ROTC Scholarship Blueprint.