@bigfandave My son’s friend committed to one of the top UC schools as an athlete in 9th grade unofficially (it became official this year)and was told to maintain GPA3.5( all regular classes), and ACT 24 or so.
I was shocked to hear that. He did not even get a full scholarship(his tuition will be partly paid), but the school has that much room on his academics.
He was also recruited by one of the Ivy’s, the school asked him to have GPA 4.0 and ACT 30.
His stats were not that high, so he chose the UC.
Please use these stats as references only as I am sure every school has different requirement.