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PSD: You are to be congratulated for your advice to your son. More rigourous academic classes will also assist with him getting higher standardized test results (SAT, ACT, SATII, etc). So, in the end he can present an overall nice academic "package" for a college. Also, while I have no first hand experience, I do believe that when colleges recruit, they consider the entire class that they are presenting to their Admissions offices - so if they want a stud who does not quite have the academics, then a kid with better grades who may not be quite as good on the field, may help lift the overall recruiting class academics, so they can get the stud in the same class.

Of course, if our kid is also a baseball stud, then you are absolutely on the right track!

One can never go wrong with stronger academics - just MHO.

In my son's experience, the first question the colleges ask him is "what are your grades and your SAT/ACT scores." His are great (and he has a strong mix of honors/APs), but he's a JR., so it remains to be seen if that works for him.
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