So you're saying that some schools send no kids to college?
The Clearinghouse requirements are no more stringent than the admission requirements of most colleges. Yet, somehow, all the kids who go on to college out of these allegedly incompetent high schools seem to have no trouble understanding what those requirements are.
You guys are at a logical disadvantage in attempting to blame the schools.
Absolute unquestionable truth - a school most definitely
could have any number of non-athlete students gain admittance & go off to college and
it is possible for none of them to be in full compliance with the NCAA clearinghouse specifications
In general, if you are talking about a very conventional 'selective' or 'highly selective' college, yes they are pretty much looking for credentials that are above the qualitative level of rigor set forth by the Clearinghouse standards.... But - The Clearinghouse requirements can be far more stringent & more importantly -
rigid than what
some colleges might utilize for admissions for the general student body.
Remember also that Clearinghouse requirement are different for D1, D2, & D3 ... (and do not apply to NAIA schools) - a "C" student with weak test scores but strong recommendations could be admitted to a D3 and still get to play in NCAA sports - they might also get into some D1 schools - but not qualify to play because of the NCAA's different criteria for the D1 schools
The Clearinghouse requirements are not open to situational evaluation - but all colleges can look at a general student's body of work and make an individual judgment call on admitting that student - even if their transcript does not contain every item that the college generally looks for. (Clearinghouse - has no wiggle room)
A college may find extraordinary merit in the application of a particular student and admit them - even if they have certain deficiencies - or they simply went to a truly non-traditional private school that did not match the NCAA Clearinghouse template.
Also - There are more than 800 four-year colleges and universities that do not use the SAT or ACT to admit substantial numbers of bachelor-degree applicants. see - -
http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional ... you will note that it is entirely possible to gain admission to a number of very respectable schools without ever taking the SAT or the ACT ..... But the student athlete has to be aware that - if you want to participate in NCAA sanctioned sports at any of these schools - you will still have to take the SAT or ACT and get a score that will satisfy the NCAA Clearinghouse ...
There are also colleges that will admit students without their High School diploma - which could be well prior to them having fully completed the NCAA Clearinghouse 'punch-list' of required courses. So, some of these genius kids who jump into college at 15 or 15 - would be ineligible to participate in NCAA sanctioned sports until they had secured a certain amount of genuine college credit.
Does the full set of NCAA Clearinghouse requirements represent some insanely impossible criteria? No ...... but it does require attention, it requires that somebody is paying attention to general needs & requirements as early as in the 8th grade when the 13 year old student sits down and signs up for their 9th grade classes. This is pretty inconsequential if the student is in a higher quality school and is following a 'college prep' track - they will end up with valid classes. The real challenge - the real problem situations - arise when a student is maybe 'marginal/borderline' - has little or no home front guidance - is in a school that is populated with 'at risk' students, ----- if, in a situation like this, the high potential student athlete is not identified & steered toward a 'college prep' track it is entirely possible for them to end up with a 'diploma' - but - a whole lot of "wrong / non-qualifying" courses on their transcript.
