Parents and Athletes Please Read!

Only one in 17 high school football players, or 5.8%, go on to earn a college scholarship and one in 1,100 of those same high school gridiron greats make it to the NFL.

The odds of a high school soccer player attaining a scholarship are almost identical to football, as are the odds of such a youngster, no matter how talented, making it in the MLS.

Baseball is slightly tougher in terms of attaining a college scholarship - one in 19, or 5.6%, can do so - but the chances of getting drafted to the pros is better than either football or soccer, with a whopping one in 200, or 0.5%, being chosen.

Of all the girls who participate in high school basketball, only one in 34, or 3.1%, attain a college basketball scholarship and only one in 5000, or 0.02%, eventually make it to the WNBA.

The odds of a male basketball player making it to college hoops or the pros are even longer. Only one in 35, or 2.9%, goes on from high school to play in the college game and, of all the high school basketball players in the U.S., only one in 3300, or 0.03%, make it to the NBA.

Source: collegeparents.org