<p>I was wondering. What if I were the star player on my basketball team? What if I become the best player in school history?
How points would I have to average and stuff?</p>
<p>It depends. A star basketball player on one team could very easily be a bench reserve on another team. The best player in school history? Well from your other posts you’re sophomore who plays basketball at home because you don’t have time for the school team. And the best player in school history, most of the time, has been very good for a very long time and didn’t just pick up a ball as a sophomore and be the star. You wouldn’t be able to play till next year as a Junior…giving you two years of basketball. Probably not enough time to become the best in history of your school, unless you’re school isn’t very good and it doesnt take much to be the star. Averages? Again, it varies. </p>
<p>Sorry to sound so harsh…but it seems like you’re looking for the easy way into college. Other posts from you (some direct, some paraphrasing) “Can I slack off?” “if i write this journal at home or play basketball in the driveway, is that a good EC?”…it seems to me that you’re looking for the bare minimum requirements to get into schools. Colleges wants those students who do what they love and go above and beyond the minimum requirements.</p>
<p>Being one of the top 150 in the country will probably get you in at some schools. Unfortunately, being the best at your school means little. BB players who are going to play in college, especially at the Division I level, compete nationally through their AAU and shoe sponsored teams during thier high school years and that is where coaches scout them. Less than 1% of all high school seniors who play bb nationally go on to play college ball. If you are any older than a freshman, you would probably know by now if you have a chance at being one of them. Sports, when it works out, can seem like an easy way to get into a better school but it is a big gamble because you never know until the end if it works out and most athletes who do get there have sacrificed a lot of time, and sometimes a few gpa points, in pursuit of excellence. Some make that sacrifice and it doesn’t work out, leaving them less qualified for admission than if they didn’t pursue an athletic admission. The easiest way to get in to college is to get as many A’s as possible in challenging classes. Good luck.</p>
<p>Not a good athlete. A great athlete.</p>
<p>Judging from your other posts, this would hardly be possible for you. You don’t even play on a team, from what I understand.</p>
<p>My friend has been playing club basketball for 7 years, and started on our school’s Varsity team his Freshman year. He was our all-area champion too. And he still wasn’t recruited.</p>
<p>Do your best and stop looking for odd ways to get into college. To re-emphasize, it’s too late for you to become a star. Sorry, but it’s the truth! And writing a journal gets you nowhere as well. Get good grades, do some legitimate passionate EC’s. And do EC’s because you want to, not because you feel like it will help you for college. Good luck.</p>
<p>wow. you are a joke</p>
<p>Even with the requisite skill, it depends on the college and division. I know of a kid who was heavily recruited by Davidson’s track team, but he was rejected.</p>
<p>think about it…every highschool in the country has a "best player’</p>
<p>SO many kids from my HS every year are recruited to Ivy League colleges… But most of these are for crew (rowing), and not many HS’s have crew teams, so yeah… It sucks though, to see so many kids from my grade who are just mediocre students go to Harvard and Yale because they know how to row a boat well.</p>
<p>I would say you would have to be pretty good, even for D III forget about DI.</p>
<p>yeah with one voice i hear that. The only kids who get recruited for athletics from my high school do Crew (w/ a 1 or 2 exceptions who are real athletes) . And its because nobody has a crew team. These are the least athletic kids ever–the ones who got cut from baseball and lacrosse because they were to small/weak/uncoordinated. And they all get recuited to ivies. wack.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s really ridiculous. Very rarely are these recruited crew athletes anywhere near Ivy League caliber.
This year we’ve got 1 rower going to Harvard, yet about half of my friends deserve to go to Harvard before he does.</p>