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It’s impossible to overstate the importance of good grades for student-athletes - the myth of collegiate athletes being able to get away with weak grades is flat-out wrong. The NCAA’s Academic Progress Report (APR) tracks the success of a team by the number of student-athletes it graduates. If a team’s APR does not meet NCAA standards, the school’s ability to award athletic scholarships is restricted. Coaches, concerned about having crucial scholarship funding taken away, are not interested in recruiting students who cannot maintain the minimum required GPA.
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If a Division I or II coach does not extend an offer for an official visit, the athlete is probably not high on that coach’s list and not being considered for a scholarship. With a few exceptions, football programs are limited to offering fifty-six official visits, basketball programs can offer only twelve official visits, and baseball only twenty-five.
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