What are your goals Graduating from High School

What are your goals? Graduating from High School? College? A sports scholarship? Academic Scholarship? What are your chances? What’s in your control? What’s your back up plan?

What are the chances of a sports scholarship? • Only 2%! (2) • And that’s not necessarily the school of your choice!

Heads up! • Of that 2% the average amount of this is less than $11, 000. 00 which will not cover the full cost of your college expenses. (5)

ADVERAGE COST OF COLLEGE • Private School - 43, 000. 00/YR (4. ) • In State Tuition for Public – 22, 261. 00/YR (4. )

What are the chances of you playing for a college in your sport ? **The following figures include the vast majority of athletes that are not on scholarship as well as the few that are on scholarship.

More than 60% of all NCAA athletes do not receive athletic financial aid.

Men’ s Basketball – 546, 335 in High School – 16, 571 in NCAA ( College) – 44 drafted to pros – 3% from High School to College – 1. 2% NCAA to Pros –. 03% High School to Pros (3)

Women’s Basketball – 452, 929 in High School – 15, 096 in NCAA ( College) – 32 drafted to pros – 3. 3 % from High School to College – 1. 0 % NCAA to Pros –. 02 % High School to Pros (3)

Football – 1, 071, 775 in High School – 61, 252 in NCAA ( College) – 250 drafted to pros – 5. 7 % from High School to College – 1. 8 % NCAA to Pros –. 08 % High School to Pros (3)

Men’s Soccer – 358, 935 in High School – 19, 797 in NCAA ( College) – 44 drafted to pros – 5. 5. % from High School to College – 1. 7 % NCAA to Pros –. 07 % High School to Pros (3)

Baseball – 470, 671 in High School – 28, 767 in NCAA ( College) – 600 drafted to pros – 6. 1 % from High School to College – 9. 4 % NCAA to Pros –. 45 % High School to Pros (3)

What can you do to increase your chances of getting into the school of your choice?

COLLEGE COACHES WANT • TO RECRUIT ATHLETES THAT WILL SUCCEED ACAMEMICALLY! (6) – Your SAT and ACT test scores will be used as predictors of your academic success! – Your must have a GPA of a 2. 0 • The higher the better!

What else? • The better the college the more rigorous the standards for admissions. – Taking AP exams ( Advanced Placement) will show your dedication and may even test out of a college course this way!! – Participation in extracurricular activities and volunteer work will show that you can handle the pressures of school and your sport while taking on other activities.

IMPORTANT!!!! • Can an athletic scholarship or ability overturn academic denial? • NO (1) • Recruits need to make the same academic standards of both the NCAA and the university.

WHAT’S YOUR BACK UP PLAN? • NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL INCREASES YOUR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE! • GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE INCREASES YOUR CHANCES FOR A HIGHER PAYING JOB!

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