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[quote=Anonymous]My DS is currently a college freshman "recruited" athlete at a D3.  He had good grades in high school (A-), but not fantastic grades.  He went to a private high school and took a couple of AP classes and a couple of honors classes but several "general ed" classes.  He was aggressively pursued by multiple D3 coaches and was being looked at by a handful of D1 coaches.  The reason why I mention D1 is because DS is a strong athlete that was wanted by multiple coaches.  We had been told that grades are still important and we learned it first hand.  Yes, if you are a top football player who is being pursued by the college football powerhouses, you probably just have to graduate from high school.  But high academic D3 schools require you to have the grades to get into their school.  And depending on the sport and school, some D1 schools also have stringent grade requirements for their athletes.

Two coaches from high academic schools reached out to DS.  During the conversation, they asked him what his GPA/SAT scores were and when DS answered, the call quickly ended.  He never heard from those coaches again, so they knew, just based on him telling them his GPA/SAT that they would never get him admitted.

He was verbally offered a spot at a very high academic school (top 10 national SLAC.)  My DH and I talked to the coach and our first question to him was "Have you seen his grades?"  The coach wanted our son and was convinced he would be able to get him into the school.  DS sent in a transcript for a pre-read - as we suspected, he got a "no" from admissions so the coach obviously didn't have that much pull.

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