quote:Originally posted by switchitter:
Couple questions (i'm learning here). Could someone explain "3.5 unweighted GPA"? Also, are you saying that if someone has a 3.5+ GPA, they are automatically entitled to academic monies from certain universities? And then further, those academic monies would be exempt from the 25% baseball monies and therefore "stacked" into a nice package somewhere above and beyond the 25%?
3.5 unweighted GPA is a GPA based on a 4 point scale without adding or subtracting weight to it from AP, Honors, or other weighting systems.
It is used to determine whether the player can qualify for academic aid, without that aid being counted against baseball monies. In short, if the coach was offering a 25% scholarship, and the student did not exceed the minimum thresholds for academic aid, then any additional aid would be counted against the baseball budget and take away from the coaches pool of scholarship money available.
On the other hand, if the student exceeded any one of the miniumum thresholds, 3.5 GPA, top 10% of class, 105 ACT, (unsure of the SAT #), then the academic aid he recieves is seperate from the baseball scholarhip and doesn't count against the coaches pool of 11.7 available scholly's.