<p>My son is a good solid student, A's and B's his entire high school career. His schools marking periods do not officially end (the first one) until late Dec) so they only estimate at this point and for the first time in one of his harder classes he got a C+ (though not an official grade), incidentally he has since brought it up to a low B. </p>
<p>Do you think this could adversely affect his chances of his ED app as an athletic recruit? The coach told him he was his #1 recruit for his position. He has great EC's and overall a good solid record. Just curious since this is our first time doing this.....any input would be most appreciated.</p>
<p>If you are talking about an IL school, it may be a problem. My S had a high enough GPA (high enough to be National Honor Society) and good enough test scores and plenty of IL interest. In many cases, he would have been their best athlete in his event so we know it wasn’t an issue about not being good enough. But in the end, we had at least one coach tell us that the admissions office had a concern about a C+ on the transcript. When you are a borderline IL recruit academically, you get these types of comments. Another IL school said they were concerned with his English ACT score which was a 32.</p>
<p>Perhaps. But in this case, the coach had worked with S very closely at a camp and gave all indications of really wanting him so the excuse was coming from admissions. Or the coach mixed S up with another recruit.</p>
<p>My son is being recruited by an IL school, and he has C’s on his transcript. He has really good extracurriculars in addition to his sport though (honors band, math and science league medals).</p>
<p>I will assume your son is taking the most difficult courses available, because that is a big issue as well. You talk about essentially trimesters, so I assume it is a private school, and that can be a minus because many private school kids are really really good in terms of GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>My son does not have any C"s, all A’s and B’s, except for this one “mid term grade” which is not official. Just an estimate. Its his first ever. My son also has strong very strong EC’s and attends a widely respected rigorous private school. He is taking a difficult course load and the C+ is in a college level course. From what I am now hearing and reading, we are not that worried anymore. He was one of the top recruits for this coach, had a strong pre read and everything else seems to be in order. Most do not think a single C+ will change anything. I am told however that more than one C as in multiple C’s can definitely affect the outcome of an ED read.</p>
<p>Based on our experience, I think the NESCAC schools tend to be more holistic in their approach so I agree that one grade should not make a difference. My son was a top recruit for two of the best Nescac schools. No one ever mentioned his grades I believe because he has top notch extra-curricular activities, placing high at the state level and competing nationally in his sport as well as three other extra-curricular where he also competed at the state level. He also sings in a very selective choir. We noticed a huge change in one of the schools once he passed the pre-read. S was getting multiple emails a day from professors, coaches, alumni, and other students. It was really overwhelming. For us financial aid or scholarships really was going to be the deciding factor. This school could offer a small amt but not nearly enough. The other NESCAC appeared to be offering no financial aid. This, in contrast with an IL school which sent us a written financial aid pre-read in the $24,000 range before we had the admissions pre-read (this was in error apparently, the coach is supposed to hear from admissions first). Interestingly the coach at the school with all the attention recently told someone that my son trains with (that he just happens to be personal friends with)that it was still 50-50 whether S would have gotten in. I hope you hear soon. The good news is that if your child is a top recruit, there will be other spots out there. My S does not deal with this type of stress well so it is a good thing we are done.</p>
<p>I really doubt that the IL school I went to cared about ( the D I got in AP Bio and then admitted me…</p>
<p>I do know that a nationally ranked athlete who was recruited by and going to Harvard got a D senior year and ended up at a lower-ranked IL school, where he is doing very well.</p>