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		<title>5 College Athletic Scholarship Recruiting Myths &amp; Truths</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of bad information out there in regards to college athletic scholarship recruiting. It is hard to tell what advice will actually help you and which will hurt your athletic scholarship chances. Here are 5 common myths we here every year and what the truth is behind them.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a lot of bad information out there in regards to college athletic scholarship recruiting. It is hard to tell what advice will actually help you and which will hurt your athletic scholarship chances. Here are 5 common myths we here every year and what the truth is behind them.</p>
<p><strong>1. Can you play at the next level?</strong></p>
<p>Sounds easy to you, right? Well it can be and we show you how but surprisingly there are really talented high school athletes that don’t get the opportunity to play in college.</p>
<p>Making the step from high school to college requires more than talent. Talent can get you far in high school without a lot of dedication and determination. But in college, having talent is not enough.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> <strong>Pay to Play Recruiting Services will do it for me. </strong></p>
<p>This is a top misconception in college recruiting. These websites and services are everywhere. We know they sound great, just pay us every month, put up a profile and college coaches will be knocking down your door offering scholarships.  We wish it was that easy. Do you really think college coaches sit on the computer looking at profile after profile? Have you ever looked at those online profiles? Every athlete looks the same, you can’t tell the difference between one and the other. Recruiting is about separating yourself from the masses. Become and individual that colleges need to recruit!</p>
<p>Don’t waste your money on these services. They send colleges hundreds of faxes a day. A coach doesn’t have the time or the patience to call these players back and search for a needle in a haystack. These sites do look great, no doubt about that, but we show you how to recruit yourself better, certainly cheaper, and faster!</p>
<p>You can’t depend on anyone else to recruit you except yourself!</p>
<p><strong>3. You don&#8217;t have the grades.</strong></p>
<p>There are thousands of talented high school athletes every year whom would have been a scholarship athlete, but could not even pass the NCAA Clearinghouse.</p>
<p>The old days of getting into any college, regardless of grades, if you can play is over. The NCAA has tightened its restrictions and raised the minimum test scores and grades. Individual schools have also raised their minimums for athletes. While it is true if you play sports you can get in with lower G.P.A. and test scores than non-athletes, there are only a few “reserved” or “provisional” acceptance spots ear-marked for athletes. More and more schools are eliminating these every year as pressure builds from the non-athletic community. We take you through the critical steps on what to do year by year in your high school academic career to pass the Clearinghouse with ease.</p>
<p><strong>4. Student Athletes who only want to play at the Division I level.</strong></p>
<p>There is so much focus on DI colleges and universities. Many feel that it is a DI scholarship for them or nothing.</p>
<p>Limiting yourself to DI schools is a sure-fire way to not playing in college. You can walk on in some DI programs but expect to pay full price. Often if an athlete drops a level from what their ego tells them to play, it will open up scholarship money to pay for school. And would you rather be on the bench for 4 years or be a 3-4 year starter?</p>
<p><strong>5. You get a letter from a college coach- What does it really mean?</strong></p>
<p>Too many athletes think a letter is the true beginning of a scholarship offer. It is really up to you to get the scholarship you deserve! Colleges have amasses databases from many different sources, high schools often give this information to college admissions officers who then forward this info to the athletic departments. Most athletic offices have students working in work-study capacities whose job is to compile lists of thousands upon thousands of students.</p>
<p>While it can be a good sign to get a letter from a coach. It is really only the beginning of building a long recruiting relationship with this school. It is up to you what you do with this letter. Most athletes sit back and wait for the coach to start recruiting you from this point, and for 99% it never happens.</p>
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