{"id":11922,"date":"2016-09-20T04:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:39:35","slug":"the-ugly-truth-about-your-gpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-ugly-truth-about-your-gpa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Truth About Your GPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently talking to a parent of an athlete who told me his son would have almost enough credits to graduate after his junior year, so he was going to take a bunch of easy classes his senior year to pump up his GPA. I immediately replied: \u201cNo, no, no.\u201d I may have said \u201cno\u201d several more times. He said: \u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a common misconception athletes\u2019 parents have. They think that only their child&#8217;s GPA, and not their classes, is what matters when colleges are considering recruiting their son\/daughter.<strong> Colleges also consider what classes they are taking &#8212; the tougher, the better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parents often ask me how many credits are required in each subject to play in college. My response is always:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"line-height: 1.7; color: #777;\"><p>\u201cI don\u2019t have that memorized because your son\/daughter shouldn\u2019t be worried about taking the bare minimum. He\/she should take the core courses (math, English, science, history) every year and take the highest-level classes he\/she can do well in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most parents understand that colleges will consider GPA and test scores (ACT\/SAT) when looking at an athlete\u2019s academic profile, but some don\u2019t realize how important their classes are in recruiting. <strong>A high GPA doesn\u2019t matter if the classes an athlete takes aren&#8217;t good enough for a school\u2019s academic standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/how-to-get-recruited?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=button&amp;utm_campaign=blog-get-scouted-button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12126 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/get-scouted-300x47.png\" alt=\"get-scouted\" width=\"300\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/get-scouted-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/get-scouted.png 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/career-application-location?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=button&amp;utm_campaign=blog-careers-button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12125 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/apply-now-300x47.png\" alt=\"apply-now\" width=\"300\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/apply-now-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/apply-now.png 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently talking to a parent of an athlete who told me his son would have almost enough credits to graduate after his junior year, so he was going to take a bunch of easy classes his senior year to pump up his GPA. I immediately replied: \u201cNo, no, no.\u201d I may have said &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-ugly-truth-about-your-gpa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[31,869,868,870,57,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}