<p>There is no question in my mind that the quality of the high school is not important in the recruiting world. If you are good enough athletically and have the right kind of course load, then you must have whatever GPA or test score the school (and coach) has decided is necessary for admissions. Not once has a coach ever discussed the quality of my son’s school but GPA came up over and over. For the IL schools, I would assume a 3.6 is the bare minimum and a 28 ACT score. My S’s experience was that even with a high test score (30+ and great SAT IIs, the fact that he had a 3.5 was a deal breaker for the ivys, even though he goes to a very competive private high school. Athletically he would have had no issue with these schools. I know of at least two athletes here who went to fairly mediocre public schools where they had 3.9 GPAs at and they had no problem getting into IL schools. Surviving the IL once they get there is another story. We see many athletes who can’t handle the academics once they get there and end up dropping out. S did not have this GPA issue with NESCAC or other very competive schools (Georgetown, Duke, Davidson, Rice etc).</p>