What happens in the event a student withdraws voluntarily from his/her contract due to inadequate GPA? Is the student eligible to contract later on after grades improve? Are further scholarship opportunities closed at this point? Thanks in advance.
For Army;
If someone withdraws they loose the scholarship.
They can apply to be reinstated into the ROTC,
if deficiencies have been corrected - they can be allowed in,
but the scholarship is lost.
If a cadet is in academic trouble, withdrawing is the wrong approach,
talking to the PMS and getting academic support is the correct approach.
They are there to help and advise, use them.
My DS was told that the Battalion(Alabama) monitored grades continually, any cadet "in GPA danger"
"would" attend study hall/tutoring 2 hrs daily. If GPA was missed (>2.0, >3.0 for ROTC courses) for one semester, they would be placed on academic probation - Still in program, but payments suspended. (with an "all out" cadre tutoring/support effort) After a semester if GPA was still deficient,
could be dropped from program, with little to no chance of being reinstated. However some past cadets were in and out of academic probation all 4 yrs, graduated and commissioned, but they were the ones that were making "heroic efforts" at their studies.
Comment was made that a deficient GPA is sometimes a symptom of bigger problem, wrong major, does not want to be in program/college, personal issues etc., Counseling not studying sometimes the remedy, and some cadets just testing authority and only needed a verbal 'boot in the butt'.
ROO said he went from a summa cum laude HS senior to academic probation as a freshman in college and was well aware of the challenges of college life, he was not going to write off a promising cadet easily.
Note it is possible to apply for a one semester leave of absence (LOA)
AR 145-1
Link sections 3-12, 3-16, 3-43 etc