Just a question pertaining to the Guard and UPT opportunities here.

I was wondering how stringent the military is on your college grades? I'm talking about GPA, test scores, etc. And non flying only stuff.

I got my private in high school and passed well with a 90 on the written. Now I'm working on instrument and studying my butt off. I'm a little concerned about my non-flight related history at school however.....Before I turned my life around about a year ago I had royally screwed up college. I went to MSU and completely flunked out of the school because I was too busy worried about working all the time and making enough to survive/fly. This resulted in me flunking out of the college and of course the flight program that I'd never gotten the chance to even experience.

I then spent a year and a half only working and didn't do the college thing or fly at all. In the fall of 2011 I moved to Texas and attended a community college and decided it was time to get down to business. I have a 3.0 GPA now (not great I know but working 60+ hours a week and 5 classes a semester is really a challenge sometimes). I am just a mediocre student at best and will probably graduate with around a 3.0 ish GPA in a couple years. I'm studying business now instead of pro-aviation.

I guess my concern is, will the Guard turn me down for consideration because of my two awful years at MSU and then a mediocre at best college career now? I had an professor at MSU once tell me that all my future flying employers would be studying my GPA and all my test scores to determine my eligibility to be employed, therefore, not to screw it up. Well, I did. I can't help but wonder now that I look back on it if I haven't screwed myself out of a career in the military or at least the guard (which is what I'd really like to do now).

BTW that professor was an E4-B commander. I took him pretty seriously when he told me that stuff.

Sorry for the long post. So am I SOL or what?