A top end scholarship student usually does not find a 3.0 college GPA requirement to be that stressful. A 3.3 college GPA requirement may be somewhat more of a concern, but not as much as a 3.5 or higher college GPA requirement.
First semester/year is the riskiest time GPA-wise, since you will be adjusting to college, and do not have previous semesters’ worth of GPA to buffer against one worse GPA semester.