as the world turns wrote:exD1dad wrote:I know a player who thought she was doing all the right things by getting her 3.0 but when she took her SAT's they were so low she couldn't take advantage of any D 1 offer (she had 3) & ended up in a JC.. Of course that was a Los Angeles Unified student.
80% of the Universities will think twice of making an offer to a student with only a 3.0 GPA. I've seen some teams advertise on this blog requiring players to have only a 2.5 - 3.0 GPA to be on the team. Better have higher requirements than that. I have seen many softball players over the years go nowhere because of low academics.
Actually a fair number of well known D1 schools will take a softball player with a sub-3.0 GPA if they want them. That is reality. We were told by more than one that "we would prefer not to [out of concern about continual academic eligibility] but we can get her in". I have no idea how low they will go. OTOH NYU wouldn't accept my son with only a 3.5 GPA so some schools won't budge on their requirements. I suspect there are more than a few basketball and football players at D1s that got in with low HS GPAs.
I would certainly encourage every HS softball player to do the best they can in school but a 2.8 GPA won't preclude their recruitment/admission to many D1s assuming I can extrapolate from my experience with validity.
Grateful Squirrel
