![]() Mentors support one or several rats and act as cadet role models. Friendships resulting from this partnership often last a lifetime. The term dyke is a traditional term at VMI which describes a big brother/sister, little brother/sister relationship where the first-class cadets serve as your mentors offering advice, moral support, and a haven on the first stoop (floor) of the barracks. Your greatest ally during and after the Rat Line is your first-class mentor known as your “dyke”. Your goal is to learn, become proficient in the military tasks, and earn the status of 4th Class cadet (freshman) by making it through the Rat Line. Their goal is to teach discipline, precision, humility, obeying orders and self-control. These hand-picked, trusted, and experienced upper-class cadets are responsible for your cadet instruction and military training. You march into barracks to meet your cadre. On Matriculation Day, after saying goodbye to your family, you'll form up with your company for the first time. ![]() You will be assigned to a company throughout your cadetship. Additionally, there is Band Company with the VMI Pipes and Drums. These are Alpha (A), Bravo (B), Charlie (C), Delta (D), Echo (E), Foxtrot (F), Golf (G), Hotel (H) and India (I) Companies. The Corps is organized as a rifle regiment consisting of three battalions with three companies per battalion. The VMI regiment is the centerpiece of the Corps of Cadets. VMI will probably be one of the hardest things you ever do, but one of the best decisions of your life. You only go through the Rat Line once, and if you put your all into everything you do, there will be no regrets. It forges you and your brother rats as leaders of character, and it starts with your first week. Most importantly, you’ll gain the courage to embody selfless service. Throughout your first year, you'll learn how to be part of a winning team through discipline, unity, grit, accountability, military conduct, humility, orderliness, and respect for yourself and others. They guide you in this apprenticeship to become a highly sought after and revered VMI cadet and VMI graduate. The First Class are VMI’s seniors and are your cadet mentors your “big brothers and sisters”. You and your "brother rats" grow together as a team and depend on each other and the First Class to succeed. From that day forward, you’ll push yourself further than you ever thought you could go. Rising to these challenges begins on your first day at VMI. You have signed up to face academic, military, and athletic challenges, meet them and win. As you sign the matriculation book on Matriculation Day, you have entered the rolls of thousands before you, and thousands yet to come. They arrive from different places, backgrounds, and cultures and become VMI cadets. Students from across the world come to VMI. While other places of higher learning have a similar experience, the Virginia Military Institute outdoes the rest. Once done, the amount of pride, the great feeling of accomplishment and belonging to something greater than yourself is with you, forever. It is where the foundation for your success is achieved. ![]() It is where you transition to your future. Your first year at the Virginia Military Institute is forever. When you graduate from college, where do you want to be from? If you want the best, if you want to learn to lead, if you want to become part of something greater than yourself, or if you want to have the best education and preparation for after college, then look no further. Welcome to the VMI Experience only the Best.
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