The one thing from an AFROTC perspective when you talk about the cgpa and SFT is the board will also look at the college.
I don't want cadets to think 3.1 is the target cgpa at every school. MIT cadets will have a more strenuous academic education than a cadet at UCF. AFROTC will not ding the MIT cadet for having a 2.9, but they will ding the UCF cadet for having a 2.9
That is why it is also important to place into the equation, not the ROTC min for the scholarship, but what it is at your college.
If you look at the OP's comment
dparrish said:
If they calculate it with +C being a 2.3, does that mean that basically you have to keep a -B in all of your classes throughout ROTC? Seems almost impossible, especially for tough majors like engineering...
At our DS's college which is a nationally rank college with a strong engineering program, the answer would still be you need as an engineer a 3.0 to be safe for SFT, and OML. At our DD's college which is an SMC, the same is still true.
Maybe dparrish is looking at attending Notre Dame, UPenn or MIT, where a 2.5 would not be the bottom of the barrel academically.
I want to also say most ROTC scholarship recipients also have merit scholarships. As a parent I never paid heed to AFROTC min, because for his merit at college it was 3.0. He couldn't go below the 3.0. So if you have merit, look at their fine print because I would bet my 1st child, the college has an academic min.
Finally, for many 1st time parents college gpas, at least the 2 our 2 attend, carry out the gpa to the 1/1000th before they round to the 1/100th. In other words you don't get a 2.5, you get a 2.51 and that 2.51 was originally 2.507 which was rounded up to 2.51.