<p>My son attends UF on an AFROTC Scholarship. He is an above average student but has always been lazy. Well, his GPA for his first semester is as I suspected. He has a 1.72 and in order to retain his scholarship he is required to hold a 2.5. Will he lose his scholarship immediately? I’m quite sure he has realized that he is responsible for his own actions and if he’s given the chance, he’ll more than rise to the occassion but of course, it may be too late. Does anyone know how this usually plays out with scholarships and low GPA?</p>
<p>ROTC typically gives one semester of academic probation. However, I’m not sure if that is the case with freshman and/or how it effects funding. </p>
<p>Your son should have a class advisor (that’s what they call them in NROTC) that he can speak with about this. If nothing else, they will be contacting him when he gets back to spell out the consequences. </p>
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<p>He knew he was responsible for his own actions when he left for college and accepted the ROTC scholaship as well. ROTC is demanding. Your son needs to be honest with himself about what went wrong and make a new plan for this coming semester. Again, this is something his class advisor can help him with. </p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>S1 is in NROTC. Haven’t been in your situation but I think he will have the Spring semester to get his gpa up. S has two other scholarships besides the ROTC and both of those are checked by financial aid office at the end of the year to make sure he has the required gpa for renewal of the scholarship for the following year.</p>
<p>My S2 did very poorly (worse than yours) in his first semester at a state u. His school offers the opportunity to retake up to three classes in which the student has made a D or F. The higher grade will then replace the poor grade for gpa calculations. My S will be retaking those classes he bombed this semester in hopes of raising his gpa and getting off academic probation.</p>
<p>Some scholarships also require that a minimum number of credit hours be completed. (My daughter’s is 28 a year I think). So if retaking a class is an option (or even if it is not and there are Fs in the equation which would mean no credits) make sure that you/he knows those requirements. The retention requirements s/b detailed in the scholarship paperwork.</p>
<p>Sometimes there is an option of saving a scholarship if the GPA/credit requirements are met by the beginning of the next school year - in other words summer school. Check with the appropriate adviser.</p>
<p>Thank you for your replies. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and praying (until we get the info from his cadre) that he will be placed on probation and ‘not’ lose his scholarship. We know he’ll have to pay out-of-pocket for the class he failed and that if his scholarship remains intact he’ll have to retake it over the summer. We are just hoping that he hasn’t blown his chances for a great education/career.</p>
<p>GatorROTCMOM, My S’s ROTC unit requires anyone with a gpa less than 2.9 to attend mandatory study hall 10 hours per week. Do you know it your S’s unit has anything like that?</p>
<p>For NROTC, does it matter if you’re grades dip too low. For example, I’ve been getting A’s and B’s in high school until Senior year. I got a C in AP Macroeconomics(a semester course only). Does that portray me as having senioritis to the Navy? I genuinely struggled through that class. My friend who does AFROTC said they might rescind the scholarship(that is if I get it) if I get one C. I’m kind of worried because a C is something I’ve never gotten before. Does thee Navy see this sudden drop as a negative?</p>
<p>ROTC and NROTC scholarship programs are changing. Far fewer 4 year scholarships will be available. Even the 3 year is being reduced in number in favor of the 2 year. The DoD is also becoming much more mindful of majors. By DoD policy, STEM majors will in the future account for 85% of ROTC scholarship recipients. And grades will be more important then ever.</p>
<p>Jyc, if you already have your scholarship, they should not rescind it because of one c. The senioritis thing comes into play when you go from an average say 3.7 gpa to a 2.5 senior year gpa. One C is nothing to lose too much sleep over.</p>
<p>GRM,</p>
<p>As others have said, your son will likely be put on academic probation for a semester and should keep his scholarship if he gets his grades up.</p>
<p>However, he needs to keep in mind that he only has this semester and next to bring his GPA up enough to be competitive for a Summer Field Training slot. SFT is a required summer program between the 2nd and 3rd years in AFROTC and they have been using it to cut cadets from the program to reduce the number of officers produced. You might want to head over to serviceacademyforums.com and check out the ROTC sub-forum for more information. I don’t recall what the GPA cutoff was last year, but it was higher than the minimum required by the terms of the scholarship.</p>
<p>This thread is from 2008. GatorROTCMOM hasn’t posted since then. If her son’s grades recovered, he should be graduating this semester. I wish him luck.</p>
<p>Serves me right for posting before my first caffeine of the day! I should’ve checked the OP date, thank you for pointing it out.</p>