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[quote=Anonymous]Colleges recruit athletes first for football and basketball. There are minimum ncaa requirements for academics to be eligible to compete. All other sports must have stiluddnts meet those levels too, but the reality is that they exceed them. Generally speaking the average gpa of a non-football or basketball team will exceed the average campus gpa. My daughter’s soccer team was pretty typical. The team gpa was always around 3.4 and other teams did better. The guys were always around that too - competition I’m sure. That’s typical I would add. Every school we went to during recruiting talked a ton about their academic prowess. The biggest academic issues really are (1) scheduling and (2) time. There are majors that you really cannot do as an athlete, art, music, and science lab course work all are very problematic. Sports take too much time and travel leads to missed classes that often can not be made up. [/quote]
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