D1 recruit with 2nd thought.
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DS is a blue chip D1 recruit at a very good university and is an incoming freshman in the fall. Had multiple conversations with the coach and was assured by the coach that DS could major in biomedical engineering without any issues. For the past two months, DS has in in communication with former athletes on the team and they all painted a different picture about the program once the athletes are on campus. They were steered toward majors like communications, business or philosophy. No one on the team graduated with STEM degrees in the past eight years. DS is very concerned about this and so are we.
We have more than enough in the 529 savings so that we don’t need the scholarship. I told DS to attend college and stick to biomedical engineering major and if things get too hard with both academic and athletic, just quit the team and focus on academics. The university is not going to expel him, can they? |
Anonymous
The university cannot expel one for quitting an athletic team, but it will take away the athletic scholarship. Among Division 1 football schools, Georgia Tech, Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, and Rice have the strongest undergraduate biomedical engineering programs. Northwestern, Wisconsin, and U Virginia also have strong undergraduate programs. (Would love to know the school where no football player graduated with a STEM degree in the past 8 years.) |
Anonymous
| OP here. It is not football. The team on has 7 members per season and it is a non revenue sport. |
Anonymous
7 recruits per season or 7 total team members ? Regardless, universities do not expel students for quitting an athletic team, but they do take away athletic scholarships. |
Anonymous
| I can imagine that D-1 baseball players, for an example of a non-revenue sport, attend school primarily to play as the number of games and travel schedule would likely interfere with academics. |
Anonymous
OP here. 7 total team members, with 2 new recruits per season. |
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Anonymous
| No need to worry about getting expelled! If your kid quits the team, they only lose scholarship funds, which I suspect aren't significant. From my understanding, only male athletes playing football, basketball, baseball and maybe soccer get full scholarships covering tuition, room/board. All the other sports get scholarships that vary and discretionary and these hardly cover the costs of full attendance. |
Anonymous
| Transfer to d3? |
Anonymous
Baseball scholarship amounts can be quite small, but help getting into highly selective schools such as Duke or Vanderbilt. |
Anonymous
| My nephew chose not to do his sport at his Ivy (D1 but no scholarship) because the coach told him it would be impossible to miss practice for labs. |
Anonymous
| Many recruits quit prior to graduating college. The only consequence is loss of a scholarship. |
Anonymous
I’d imagine a ton of pressure to not down 6 team members. I’d probably call it now and not join the team. Engineering workload is no joke. And it’s harder to take classes out of sequence than other majors. |
Anonymous
| What kinds of support are in place for the student-athletes? My understanding is the do work with tutors and other supports to assist students with their class work. But D1 sports is a major time commitment, scheduling classes that don't interfere with practices etc. I know at UMD there have been a few engineering student's on the men's team that graduated but it is not the norm. |
Anonymous
| Students are notoriously unreliable narrators. I would check with the advising office before making any final decisions. |