Post Grad suggestions

my son was also a nonqualifier, but i believe that only applys to d1 schools. but i could be wrong. if your son isn't an acedemic kid a pg year may not be enough to get him on track.
the juco route is not as expensive and if he gets his assoc. can then play 2 years at a d1 school. uconn avery point is a very good school and the baseball is very good as well. and i believe you get a special look if you want to go to uconn.
we were where your at about 3 yrs ago. for us the
30,000 for one more year of high school didn't fit in the master plan. the juco route worked out for us,more important it worked for him.they tend to be more helpful to the ones that need it. good luck in your search.

Per the NCAA Clearinghouse, you have to qualify for both DI and DII.

In answer to your question Baseball is Life,, I can only speak on behalf of basketball. As a former coach for an elite high school basketball travel team, attending a prep school or post-graduate school was the preferred route for several of my players. These schools recruit nationally, and seek only the elite players. By attending these prep or post-graduate schools, it allowed the athlete to AVOID LOSING COLLEGE ELIGIBILITY. However, the NCAA is starting to clamp down on these schools in an effort to stop the so-called “diploma mills” and are taking aim at prep schools created in the past 10-15 years at which athletes could take the core courses they needed. In order to retain four years of college eligibility, athletes in danger of not completing the 14 core courses had taken two routes: reclassification, essentially repeating a grade in high school; and going to prep school for a post-graduate year, during which players often loaded up on core courses.

This past April, the NCAA approved a new bylaw. From what I read, the new rule requires athletes to pass all but one of the required 14 high school core courses in eight semesters. The number of core courses will increase to 16 beginning in 2008. Athletes still can attend prep school, but only to increase their SAT or ACT scores or to take one additional core course. Perhaps some others on the HSBBW can elaborate on this.

With the passage of this new law, I expect the JUCO route will be the preferred destination for athletes who fail to qualify academically. Even though it means they will only have two years of college eligibility left after transferring to a four-year school, it becomes a motivating factor: Get it going in the classroom!

I believe the timeline for submitting applications to many of these prep and post-graduate schools are very similar to 4-year colleges and universities. I sincerely wish you and your son the best of luck in his academic and athletic pursuits.

Good stuff. Thank you.

He has the core courses but is short on the SAT/ACT and has lost several opportunities at D1's and a few top D2's because of this.

Sending him to a prep would give him time to make up the 40-50 points he needs (hopefully) and might (should) reopen the opportunities at those schools that showed interest this year.

He never got any wiffs from JUCO's and I am reluctant to just send him to one in hopes of making it.

He has a solid D3 that has heavily recruited him and has accepted him but it's expensive and not an ideal location.

Former CT based teammate of my son's was recently accepted into a PG program. Boys team's played each other on Saturday and his mom and I discussed the decision at length. Young man is an '07 grad and an excellent athlete, but because of his date of birth and the cut-off date for staring school (when he was little) he's actually younger than my 17 yr old '08, and he didn't feel he was ready to go to college. Young man has two older siblings who are college athletes, so his folks know the process. Once the decision was made to look into a PG year, rather than head straight to college, they switched gears and began the search in earnest (last December).

According to the young man's mom, getting into a prep school for a post grad year was harder than anything they had to deal with in the college recruiting process because there are significantly fewer spots available than individuals looking to fill them. Her son was on the honor roll this past year, and is a 3 sport athlete (football, basketball, baseball) and that's what finally got him accepted into two different programs. His folks went with the school that offered the most financial help because 35K-40K is a lot to pay for one year of school - and its not even college!

bbil
i would say you got no wiffs from juco's because they saw him as a 4 year school kid. umaine was looking at my son and when the coach saw his transcript he made a few calls and the jucos came out of the wood work. don't be afraid to call them if that's a road your interested in. or the d1 coach that was interested in him, he may have some ideas. having him for two years is better than none. it always works out in the end.
if everything else is good why not hire a tutor a cram for the sat? that's alot cheaper than a pg year? just a thought.

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Done the tutoring (heavily) and waiting on his June effort with one D1 hanging in with a ship. The extra year is really to improve the score and to re-open recruiting this fall/winter. You see, once he wasn't qualified by last fall/winter the programs moved on.

kmom

Big money for some of these and I'm very late now so perhaps asking a few of the coaches to find a JUCO would work but even there it's quite late.

Guess I'm looking for a magic bullet at this stage.

Thanks for the input.

never to late, start calling both to see whats open. some schools have revolving admissions. we had a great many schools interested in my son .but he wasn't qualified for them,but he was able to play juco ball and move on from there. while your situation appears bleak it happens everyday to people. it will work out, but not on it's own.