how to decide where to send your kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a D1 school, the student part of student-athlete is often secondary. If the student gets hurt, the scholarship gets pulled. If the student wants to take a challenging course load or major, the team's academic advisor will counsel against it. In some sports like football, graduation rates are abysmal, even at the better D1 colleges.

At an Ivy, academics always come first. Every athlete can choose to drop sports with no consequences for financial aid. The lowest eligible academic index athletes at an Ivy almost always score higher than the median SAT at a D1. The most common/easiest major for athletes is economics, not sports management, kinesiology, communications or marketing.

Your comment is confusing because Ivy League schools are Division I; they don't offer athletic scholarships, however.

[Anonymous]

This is such a different world!! Picking classes that let you practice your sport? Having people help you manage how to do your paper on time.

Sorry, but I cannot possibly imagine a college experience that makes academics (future career/profession) compete with the demands of a GAME. Literally, you are entertaining the audience, and bringing in money for the school, when you are young and healthy. none of them will be around in 15 years when you are supporting yourself and trying to contribute to the world in a meaningful way.

[Anonymous]

OP here. We're not qualified for Financial Aid and we only have about 140K in the 529 plan. Therefore, Ivies are not an option unless he wants to carry student loan debt. If he gets some partial athletic scholarship at UVa, that will be great and we can use money in 529 towards his graduate school. If the school cut off athletic scholarship, he will be fine too.

One of his potential future teammates @UVA told him at the end of the freshman year, he will get to meet athletic boosters and they will secure highly sought summer internship positions for him and high paying jobs after graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a D1 school, the student part of student-athlete is often secondary. If the student gets hurt, the scholarship gets pulled. If the student wants to take a challenging course load or major, the team's academic advisor will counsel against it. In some sports like football, graduation rates are abysmal, even at the better D1 colleges.

At an Ivy, academics always come first. Every athlete can choose to drop sports with no consequences for financial aid. The lowest eligible academic index athletes at an Ivy almost always score higher than the median SAT at a D1. The most common/easiest major for athletes is economics, not sports management, kinesiology, communications or marketing.

Your comment is confusing because Ivy League schools are Division I; they don't offer athletic scholarships, however.

While D1, the Ivies have an entirely different set of academic requirements to prevent the schools from admitting students just to play sports. Basically, the athletes need to be within one standard deviation from the overall student averages. And the AD is always subordinate to the faculty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a D1 school, the student part of student-athlete is often secondary. If the student gets hurt, the scholarship gets pulled. If the student wants to take a challenging course load or major, the team's academic advisor will counsel against it. In some sports like football, graduation rates are abysmal, even at the better D1 colleges.

At an Ivy, academics always come first. Every athlete can choose to drop sports with no consequences for financial aid. The lowest eligible academic index athletes at an Ivy almost always score higher than the median SAT at a D1. The most common/easiest major for athletes is economics, not sports management, kinesiology, communications or marketing.

Your comment is confusing because Ivy League schools are Division I; they don't offer athletic scholarships, however.

While D1, the Ivies have an entirely different set of academic requirements to prevent the schools from admitting students just to play sports. Basically, the athletes need to be within one standard deviation from the overall student averages. And the AD is always subordinate to the faculty.

Subordinate... yet somehow a Harvard soccer coach was involved in the fraudulent buying and selling of a house.