Academic Requirements for Recruits
Does anyone know what the exact academic requirements are for Big Ten schools (or Michigan if it gets that specific)? All of my Notre Dame friends think that the only reason Michigan will even be able to compete with ND the next few years is because their academic requirements are much tougher so they won't be able to take everyone they want. So does anybody know anything regarding ND's requirements as well?
January 7th, 2013 at 2:03 PM ^
Agree that OP's friend is not well informed. Pretty much everyone in college plays by the same rules except (IIRC) Northwestern, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Maybe BC?
January 7th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
Back when I was graduating from High School I was quite familiar with the State of Michigan requirements of the NCAA clearinghouse. They were at that time, a 16 on the ACT (original scale... no idea what it is now) and "adequate" grades in 13 core classes. The classes considered core were math, science, history, etc. They removed gym and other classes that can sometimes pad the GPAs of athletes. I also sort of remember that adequate was somewhat subjective but that may be because I went to a private school that had its own GPA scale.
January 8th, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^
Everyone knows the vast majority of these guys could not get into a Big Ten school without football. Hell, during my recruitment all i needed on my ACT to play at Princeton was a 25!! A 25 could not even get you into some halfway credible schools.