Life lesson, kid. What comes easily, you value cheaply. What you have to fight to earn, you value above all else... Fight to fly, fly to fight, fight to win.
...buck up and learn. You're just young.
...how much you are willing to sacrifice to earn it.
If you're looking for the easiest route to become a pilot this ain't the place for you.
The easiest to get your foot in the door is probably the USMC. I got a flight contract after my first semester of my freshman year of college. Not that your first semester GPA alone is a good data point, but I had a ~2.8 GPA and around a ~230 PFT. I broke my ankle and had to reapply, and after much glossing over of books and studying of 45 pound plates had a 2.5 GPA and a high 1st class PFT. (Note: this was mid-late 2000s)
Those stats you quoted are not applicable anymore. I know ground officers who wanted to go air with 3.5 GPAs, and 9/9/9 ASTB, 270+ PFTs who were shot down with in the last 2 years. The war changed standards and what was acceptable then may not apply now or in the future.
Read the above comments and taken them to heart. Getting selected is only half the battle.
That being said, easiest way into the cockpit would probably be army. Fight for a flight officer spot and apply to WOFT as many times as you can. As you get farther into college, you'll become more competitive for the warrant officer program. If you don't get selected before you grad, hopefully you've locked down a commissioned flight spot.
As other have stated, will you feel as accomplished when the peers you were in school with graduate and move on as commissioned officers, probably not. But, you'll be in the air and it will have been easier than going through USMC OCS and TBS before you get to Pensacola.
Read the above comments and taken them to heart. Getting selected is only half the battle.
That being said, easiest way into the cockpit would probably be army. Fight for a flight officer spot and apply to WOFT as many times as you can. As you get farther into college, you'll become more competitive for the warrant officer program. If you don't get selected before you grad, hopefully you've locked down a commissioned flight spot
As other have stated, will you feel as accomplished when the peers you were in school with graduate and move on as commissioned officers, probably not. But, you'll be in the air and it will have been easier than going through USMC OCS and TBS before you get to Pensacola.