This'll be a long post, but if anyones willing to throw me ANY advice it's more than appreciated.

I'm a junior in university interested in applying for a pilot slot and so far I'm focused on the Air National Guard or the Coast Gaurd. But, I'm not sure if I'm even a canidate to begin with.

To begin, I hold a PPL and I'll be working on my IFR this summer and I've got no medical restrictions. I'm a natural born U.S. citizen, and i'm working on a bachleors at the University of Toronto in Canada. But heres where my problems begin: While this University is ranked extremely well around the world, it's notorious for spanking its 50 some thousand students. The enforced average GPA is a 2.30, and as of the end of this year I'm looking at a 2.31 which I would probably be able to bring up to a 2.5 by graduation. This might look like I've been lazy or not smart enough, but if it helps I've met a boatload of people here and I've yet to meet one with a gpa above 3.5. I also know some of the websites mention a SAT score requirement and I think I scored a 1300.

That being said, I'm pretty certain I have all of the other requirements down (No medical restrictions, physically active. If references would even be necessary, I have a retired Army Major for an uncle and my childhood best friend's mom was the first woman in the Air National guard.

I've focused on the Air National Gaurd and the Coast guard specifically because from what I've been told, I'd have the ability to directly help Americans and be able to do so in a fixed wing aircraft.

I'm not interested in joining just for the fixed wing training and I'm definitely not aspiring to pilot a Hornet. Hell, I'd even pay for my own training at this point just to get into one of these programs. I really would love to be able to directly help Americans, but I'm also joining to kick-start the aviation career.

So with this not-so-hot GPA in mind, is it a waste of time for me to aspire to military flight? Am I better off just feeling my way around with civilian hours? Once again, thanks for taking the time to read this, if you have ANY input I'd love to hear it.