"When you are being run out of town, get out front and make it a parade." Sounds like your friend was reactive rather than proactive and suffered a major blow. Your friend should have given the school a heads up about the medical problems before the academic problems became an issue. That is all Monday morning QBing, but a good object leason for all of us. As for another chance, who knows? Sometimes a certain door only opens once. However, one would think that there has been other cases in which individuals were readmitted after being dismissed for academic cause. My gut feel is that your friend's best chance will reside with the school from which he or she was dropped.