<p>You do not loose bright futures if you have a bad semester. They look at it once a year only, so you have two semesters to average out. AND if you go summer, they WILL use those credits to pull up your GPA. If at the end of a school year when spring grades come out, and you are below 2.75 (composite/overall not just the semester or the year) you can go summer at your expense (even at community college near home) and pull up your overall GPA. If you have 100% and drop below 3.0 but above 2.75 you still get 75%. If you get 75%, a 2.75 is not that hard to keep, especially the longer you are in school. If you have a 3.2 average with 60 credits (ie half way through), it is hard to pull it down in one semester or one year, unless you are flunking out. In that case, you don’t deserve it anyway. I think the critical year is freshman year, and after that, it is hard to loose it if you really deserve it academically.</p>
<p>I agree it should be good for 5 years. With cutbacks, we see kids who need an extra semester to get classes that were full.</p>