Not necessarily "automatically" - if a college graduate enlists in the Army they can be accelerated to Specialist (E-4) following boot camp if their education and training warrants that degree of promotion in comparison to their chosen MOS. Some may only be promoted to E-2 or E-3 depending on the number of credit hours they completed. If they have a Bachelors degree or higher they can put in for OCS to potentially be promoted to O-1. She wouldn't have come out of boot as a Corporal, unless things have changed since I last had a look over enlistment advancement rules (I have a nephew that was interested in enlisting).
They definitely want an engineer/science major, because they know you are probably not a dumbass then, but it's not necessary, or wasn't, went I was a cadet.
What blew my mind is a college graduate was a corporal.
THAT'S how you know its fake.
Isn't a college graduate automatically an E4?
That's what I thought
Not necessarily "automatically" - if a college graduate enlists in the Army they can be accelerated to Specialist (E-4) following boot camp if their education and training warrants that degree of promotion in comparison to their chosen MOS. Some may only be promoted to E-2 or E-3 depending on the number of credit hours they completed. If they have a Bachelors degree or higher they can put in for OCS to potentially be promoted to O-1. She wouldn't have come out of boot as a Corporal, unless things have changed since I last had a look over enlistment advancement rules (I have a nephew that was interested in enlisting).
I remember being told that taking the ROTC classes in highschool would be enough to skip to E-4, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
Don't you have to get a BS or a limited selection of majors outside the sciences to be eligible for OCS?
They definitely want an engineer/science major, because they know you are probably not a dumbass then, but it's not necessary, or wasn't, went I was a cadet.