Scholarships.

Members go to the website: thecollegebaseballblog.com There is a very interesting article on scholarships and i believe it will continue with series tomorrow and wednesday.

 

Re: Scholarships

The best advice I can give to any baseball player entering the 9th grade is to give MAXIMUM effort in the classroom and obtain the highest GPA possible. Do not settle for a "C" when an "A" is attainable. The same mindset/effort required to be a winning athlete can be applied to the classroom. My experience has been that ACADEMIC money is the first choice among college coaches. Athletic money can be used to supplement ACADEMIC scholarships and other forms of financial aid. When I hear "full ride", I automatically look behind the numbers (probably due to the fact that I am a Certified Fraud Examiner) to see exactly what the "full ride" entails.

When I speak to Middle Schoolers, it's ALWAYS about grades first!!! Another thing to consider when choosing a school is the fact that the NLI is good for ONE year. Remember that fact when you see the "major programs" doing what some people call "over-recruiting". The APR will help alleviate some of these issues but it is incumbent on the families to do their research and find the best situation for their student-athlete.

 

Remember this....

....if you add all college athletic scholarships up across the country (men and women sports) it comes to around $1 billion in available funds. If you add up all of the academic scholarships available, it adds up to over $22 billion in available funds. The odds of academic help is far greater than athletic.

aside: I read this stat last year so it may be slightly different now but you get my meaning.

 

first impression...

... I had was uh, don't these folks have a clue??

Obviously they ain't got nothing like TBR in the Great White North!

cb... you're right on the money... literally! Academics are priority one. First, without good grades, a kid can't even qualify to get into school. Second, if he has really good grades, he can get much more $$$ than he ever will playing a sport (besides football or basketball). Also, remember academic money has less strings attached on what it can be spent on... as long as the grades are kept at the required level.

 

Don't forget community service

My son rec'd almost $5000.00 in community service/leadership money. being a club or sport officer in your school, working thru your church will not only help own scholarship money6 at many private colleges, but builds a better more rounded adult.

 

cb
what percentage of athletic scholarship would you say most of these 10th and 11th grade early commitments are getting?
I would assume that the colleges are well aware of their GPA's and NCAA qualifications before hand.
So should a player that carries a weighted 4.67 and an unweighted 3.98 approach things differently when trying to get a look?

 

Admissions offices also require

that students continue to produce the same quality work, i.e., grades, SATs, ACTs, etc. through the end of their high school career, or schools may change their minds about admission.

Remember the kid (not an athlete, just a scholar) who was accepted to Carolina, then expected his perfect SAT score to carry him even when he had failing grades by the end of his senior year? They wouldn't admit him and he sued, and I think he lost.

 

Great photo of the kid

I'm not an expert, but that kid from U of M might get some more money if he switches his hands on the bat....uh...forgot...he's a pitcher (obviously).

 

Seriously - I harp on grades all the time. Tonight I made my son read the reply from cbsconsult. You know - when someone else says it they listen. Dad is only smart when it comes to needing money.

 

I am a 17 year old kid and make good grades...consistently low A's High B's but those B's came back to haunt me...I had a showcase at Davidson college and talked to the coaches they said they liked everything about me and i sent them my transcript next day i get a call saying sorry but my GPA which is a 4.0 isnt high enough. it was difficult to cope wiht after all the hard work practicing that one letter kept me from Division 1 baseball.