RJM posted:A kid from our high school went to Vanderbilt. He had a 4.25. It was either his forty time or his IQ. I’m not sure which. I played with the dads of two former Vanderbilt players who took zero honors courses in high school. When Yale won the NCAA hockey championship I doubt it was with a bunch of skating PBk’ers. I laugh when I hear a kid is choosing between Harvard and UMass for hockey. They’re not making an academic choice.
Exactly. Kids choose between offers from Vandy and UF vs LSU/Kentucky/Miss St. Nothing wrong with going to any of the latter schools but let's be real. It's a baseball decision not necessarily an academic one. I would go as far as to say that some of these non HA schools are actually getting athletes well above the range of a typical accepted students as the baseball makes up for any academic shortcomings they might not be interested in as a regular student.