We keep coming back to the devil in the details.
Every scholarship cadet will be required to sign paperwork, and it lays it out there in black and white what is expected. Scholarship cadets are also required to sign if the regs change during college.
They also for AFROTC sign as a C300 aka POC a new form and that is "If I bail, or do not meet the stds you can make me pay back or enlist".
I think where this 200 issue is in the crux is because of the system in place that is different for every branch.
If the 200 is selected for FT EA, but declines, HELL yes they will ask for it to be repaid. AF was willing to take them. They opted to leave, and void the contract.
However, 200's can drop, but the fact is the drop will be in the fall 200 yr and so it is still completing 100.
If the 200 has a 3.2 cgpa, 96 PFT, SAT 1240, and the mins accepted were 3.4, 97, 1300; the AF is not going to ask for the money back. The cadet did not fail to meet the mins established for the scholarship. The AF raised the bar, thus they voided the contract.
For scholarship recipients, this is an important concept to understand. It is legally who voided the contract. This is also why they must be 18 to sign or have a legal guardian.
Now, let's go back to the OP's question. Every det will place a cadet on probation to their standards, for all we know they received a 1.5 last semester as a soph, but their fresh yr it was 3.0. They may have placed them on probation for that fact. The question still arises from their post, they expect much higher gpa this semester. What is higher?
The problem for them is Fall C200 was the absolute worst semester to have an academic issue. FT EA board meets Feb. They will be on probation, it will be an issue. The results will be released in the next few weeks when they are taking mid-terms. The emotional burden of non selection will weigh on them for weeks, along with the pressures of rolling into 500, and loss of scholarship. Academically, for many as they enter finals 8 weeks after the announcement they will spiral down, and it becomes a statistics issue.
I think this thread has scared the bee gee gees out of AFROTC scholarship/candidates/cadets.
Please don't. Follow the regs that they place forth in the letter. Just remember:
If you elect to stay meeting or surpassing the criteria during the 200 yr., and are not selected you don't owe 36K. AF voided the contract. Assuming it is still up to 18K for 2's and 7's.
If you elect to stay and tell them I am out when you are selected, you owe the money.
If you attend FT, graduate, become a POC, you owe and/or may serve as enlisted.
There are tiers.
danielk5352,
A/NROTC are different, and it starts with the scholarship selection process. Both of them tie the cadet/mid to a certain school, AFROTC does not. NROTC is like AFROTC and ties it also to the major, 85% STEM. NROTC requires, as far as I understand, that just like AFROTC Soph yr they must be contracted, and a board will determine this, just like FT EA. This is their EA board, do not pass, do not get paid 450 bucks a month, or whatever NROTC is and no commission from ROTC. If you use the EA, you will acknowledge nowhere in the point scale is scholarship recipient, maybe CC at best and probably why the system is changing to a cgpa base over the CC protection for rank on the rec base. However, for both, the fat lady sings in spring sophomore yr. when it comes to a military career path on college graduation day.
NROTC IMPO blends both the AF and the Army, and that is why I think it is rightly so to say they are the most competitive in ROTC. Nobody flame me, remember I am an AFROTC Mom who is saying a sister service is harder.