The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has compiled the following chart that estimates the probability of high school athletes competing in college athletics.

Athletes Women’s   Basketball Men’s Basketball Baseball Men’s Ice Hockey Football Men’s soccer
High School   Athletes 452,929 546,335 470,671 36,263 1,071,775 358,935
High School   senior athletes 129,408 156,096 134,477 10,361 306,221 102,553
NCAA Athletes 15,096 16,571 28,767 3,973 61,252 19,797
NCAA Freshman   Positions 4,313 4,735 8,219 1,135 17,501 5,655
NCAA Senior   Athletes 3,355 3,682 6,393 883 13,612 4,398
NCAA Senior   Athletes Drafted 32 44 600 33 250 75
Percentage: High   School To NCAA 3.3% 3.0% 6.1% 11.0% 5.7% 5.5%
Percentage: NCAA   To Professional 1.0% 1.2% 9.4% 3.7% 1.8% 1.7%
Percentage: High   School To Professional 0.02% 0.03% 0.45% 0.32% 0.08% 0.07%