GPA question

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Thanks for all the replies! I am not the cadet - I am a concerned parent. My son overloaded last semester (Calc 3, physics, Organic Chem, Latin Studies etc). he passed with C's at worst. His ROTC grades are all A's, so no worry there.

I was just a little concerned what would happen if he had another rough semester. I just guessed at the 2.5 number, sorry about that!

That's my erro then, my bad.

@Crair70, the GPA requirement is not the same for each branch.

@JCleppe, some schools offer room and board scholarships that require them maintain a 3.0 to keep room and board. That may have been a number floating around somewhere.

 

[Jcleppe]

That's my erro then, my bad.

@Crair70, the GPA requirement is not the same for each branch.

@JCleppe, some schools offer room and board scholarships that require them maintain a 3.0 to keep room and board. That may have been a number floating around somewhere.

I guess they changed the 3.0 ROTC Classes requirement 2 or 3 years ago, now it's all 2.0 for GPA.

 

[Aglahad]

He is an MSII actually. The O Chem class killed him and this caused his other classes to suffer. We have decided he needs to drop O chem2 and focus on his GPA, then take the chem class over the summer at a local school. He is a math major, but also pre-med so it won't affect his actual major.

The concern for pre-med is the need for As and maybe a few B+s in your required courses. I stress breaking the hard sciences up as much as possible because even with great MCAT scores a lot of med school won't touch your app with B-s and C+ts. If he got a C in O-Chem (p.1) I highly suggest retaking it again or your future ed delay will be shot and you will be branched like everyone else. I think you are focusing too much on overall GPA and not his pre-med GPA. Sure overall GPA matters in the scope of OML and accessions but it is not everything. In this case the math major means nothing and his pre-med courses are EVERYTHING...that is if he wants to be an army doc.

 

[riroka]

Yup - pre-med. He is a math major, pre-med in not an actual major at his school. To top it all off his club hockey team basically fell apart when only 5 players chose to finish out the season after the holidays. Hockey is his one true passion and it keeps him balanced, so he is pretty bummed.

As far as ROTC goes, he is in great standing and very involved.