If you’re the parent of a high school athlete, the college recruiting rules you remember are mostly gone. In the past two years, Division I traded scholarship limits for roster limits, the NCAA stopped using SAT and ACT scores for eligibility, a five-year eligibility clock replaced redshirts, and most states began letting high school athletes earn NIL money.

The basics still hold: your athlete needs the grades, the film and real conversations with coaches. What changed is which questions to ask, and when. Here is what is different for the Class of 2027 and younger, and what to do about it this year.