Getting Recruited for Athletic Scholarships is All About Knowing the Numbers

baseball scoreboard representing knowing the numbers of athletic scholarships in getting recruited

baseball scoreboard representing knowing the numbers of athletic scholarships in getting recruitedThis shouldn’t be a surprising statement to anyone involved in sports and trying to get recruited. After all, every sport starts off with the most basic of numbers, wins and losses, or first, second, and third place. Potential college players and their families have probably spent a significant amount of time and money the last few years trying to improve their personal numbers to increase their odds (more numbers) of getting an athletic scholarship. But you need to pay attention to more than your personal numbers if you’re serious about getting recruited to play in college.

The following are four sets of numbers you need to be aware of if you really want to get recruited for an athletic scholarship.

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It Takes More Than Rankings to Find Good Colleges

Person looking out of computer screen for good colleges

Face looking from laptop for a good collegeWhy? Because it all depends on how you define good colleges.

And that’s the problem. How do you know what makes a college “good?” Are good colleges the ones where the good students go? After all, the colleges that admit only a small percentage of students with high GPAs and college test scores are the ones that show up at the top of the college rankings. But does that mean the school is good because it admits good students or do good students go there because it is a good college?

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8 Things Parents Paying for College Must Know

Student happy because parents paying for college

Student happy because parents paying for collegeWhen my son was small and I would tell him to do something, he would ask why and I would tell him because “it’s in the parent’s manual.” He got really curious about that manual. Where was it? (I wasn’t allowed to tell him.) When did we get it? (At the hospital, of course, you don’t think they would let us leave without it?) Was there a kid’s manual? (You mean you lost yours?)

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