Upper middle class family claiming “full ride (sports) scholarship” to small D3 private college?

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Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

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Good to see the liars are being shot down.

D3 has no full ride for athletics.

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Anonymous wrote:Good to see the liars are being shot down.

D3 has no full ride for athletics.

But but but…they will FIND the extra merit money for my stellar athlete! Therefore it really really IS an athletic scholarship!

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Anonymous wrote:Good to see the liars are being shot down.

D3 has no full ride for athletics.

But but but…they will FIND the extra merit money for my stellar athlete! Therefore it really really IS an athletic scholarship!

I just pity these people putting their insecurity on blast. So sad your kid is mediocre and you're compellled to lie about aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

But they can teach spelling and grammar.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as an athletic full ride at D3 schools. Meaning, even if you are a D1 level athlete and want to attend, say, Randolph Macon College in Ashland, they simply can not come up with any scheme to get you 4 years for free.

- signed, father of a D1 athlete that actually wanted to go to a smaller school and be a student athlete.

NP. They can certainly give you extremely significant merit aid. My kid was awarded enough in merit aid that the private D3 was cheaper than instate.

That's simply false. You're not going to convince me because we tried every way possible for my kid to do this and the only 'free' offers at the end of the day were D1.

Your kid was either not good enough or not smart enough.

Wut? A kid who plays D1 isn't good enough to play D3? You ate a lot of crayons as a child, didn't you?

Yes. You obviously know nothing about the current college sports landscape. Transfer portal has changed everything. Your D1 kid wasn’t good enough to get good D3 money. Sorry to break it to you.

Also, the crayons attempted insult is extremely uncreative and dull. At least try to show some intelligence.

There is no D3 money. My father was a D1 coach for 22 years and my FIL was Chief of Admissions at a highly selective university. But keep telling yourself your loser kid is great.

Well, since you obviously used family connections to wedge your benchwarmer kid into a D1 slot he would not otherwise have earned on his own merit, I see now why you don’t understand how D3 merit aid works for kids who are top recruits. Your posts make a lot more sense now.

For kids who are actually good, there is a lot of money available, enough to make the schools cheaper than in-state public.

NP. Read through this thread, and this person just seems so nasty. Just because the other poster calls their statement false (which is annoying as it was their experience), they then attack the other poster's kid repeatedly. I get you being annoyed, but that just is an ugly look for you.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FULL RIDE FOR SPORTS AT D3 SCHOOLS. NONE. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN UNDER THE GUISE OF MERIT AID. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AT ALL. THE POSTER IS LYING. STOP RESPONDING TO THEM.

My goodness, you are worked up. I never said there was, and I don’t think the initial poster did either. Just that her kid got a lot of merit aid. Highly unusual but you never know. But, even if she wasn't truthful, why the gnashing of teeth and attacks on her kid?
It just makes you look vicious and nutty.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as an athletic full ride at D3 schools. Meaning, even if you are a D1 level athlete and want to attend, say, Randolph Macon College in Ashland, they simply can not come up with any scheme to get you 4 years for free.

- signed, father of a D1 athlete that actually wanted to go to a smaller school and be a student athlete.

NP. They can certainly give you extremely significant merit aid. My kid was awarded enough in merit aid that the private D3 was cheaper than instate.

That's simply false. You're not going to convince me because we tried every way possible for my kid to do this and the only 'free' offers at the end of the day were D1.

Your kid was either not good enough or not smart enough.

Wut? A kid who plays D1 isn't good enough to play D3? You ate a lot of crayons as a child, didn't you?

Yes. You obviously know nothing about the current college sports landscape. Transfer portal has changed everything. Your D1 kid wasn’t good enough to get good D3 money. Sorry to break it to you.

Also, the crayons attempted insult is extremely uncreative and dull. At least try to show some intelligence.

There is no D3 money. My father was a D1 coach for 22 years and my FIL was Chief of Admissions at a highly selective university. But keep telling yourself your loser kid is great.

Well, since you obviously used family connections to wedge your benchwarmer kid into a D1 slot he would not otherwise have earned on his own merit, I see now why you don’t understand how D3 merit aid works for kids who are top recruits. Your posts make a lot more sense now.

For kids who are actually good, there is a lot of money available, enough to make the schools cheaper than in-state public.

NP. Read through this thread, and this person just seems so nasty. Just because the other poster calls their statement false (which is annoying as it was their experience), they then attack the other poster's kid repeatedly. I get you being annoyed, but that just is an ugly look for you.

I think it must be true, though. That PP has been all over this thread claiming that anyone whose athlete kid got good merit aid at a D3 is lying, and that their kids are losers. She is almost hysterical in how hard she is lashing out at posters who report that their kids got very good merit aid offers, particularly cheaper than in-state tuition. Meanwhile, that PPs child is the grandchild of a longtime D1 coach and selective head of admissions. So, she doesn’t know anything about D3 athletic merit aid, even though she says her kid tried to get it (but failed), but somehow her kid ended up playing D1? There is only one rational conclusion here.

Holy. F**king. Sh*t. There is no such thing.

LOL. “Athletic merit aid.” No, this isn’t a thing. Coaches at opposing schools would absolutely pounce on schools trying to get around rules for D3 sports by going “athletic merit aid.”

I got a full scholarship to a D3 LAC. Weirdly, I also a letter from the coach of my HS sport (whom I had never met or spoken to) thanking me for “committing to the team.” I never answered the coach, never played the sport, and my scholarship was not affected.

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*from the coach of the sport I had played in HS…

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Anonymous wrote:*from the coach of the sport I had played in HS…

You never met the coach of the team you played on?

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You never met the coach of the team you played on?

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Pretty sure she meant to say she got a letter from the college coach referencing the sport she played in HS. She had never met the college coach.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as an athletic full ride at D3 schools. Meaning, even if you are a D1 level athlete and want to attend, say, Randolph Macon College in Ashland, they simply can not come up with any scheme to get you 4 years for free.

- signed, father of a D1 athlete that actually wanted to go to a smaller school and be a student athlete.

NP. They can certainly give you extremely significant merit aid. My kid was awarded enough in merit aid that the private D3 was cheaper than instate.

That's simply false. You're not going to convince me because we tried every way possible for my kid to do this and the only 'free' offers at the end of the day were D1.

Your kid was either not good enough or not smart enough.

Wut? A kid who plays D1 isn't good enough to play D3? You ate a lot of crayons as a child, didn't you?

Yes. You obviously know nothing about the current college sports landscape. Transfer portal has changed everything. Your D1 kid wasn’t good enough to get good D3 money. Sorry to break it to you.

Also, the crayons attempted insult is extremely uncreative and dull. At least try to show some intelligence.

There is no D3 money. My father was a D1 coach for 22 years and my FIL was Chief of Admissions at a highly selective university. But keep telling yourself your loser kid is great.

Well, since you obviously used family connections to wedge your benchwarmer kid into a D1 slot he would not otherwise have earned on his own merit, I see now why you don’t understand how D3 merit aid works for kids who are top recruits. Your posts make a lot more sense now.

For kids who are actually good, there is a lot of money available, enough to make the schools cheaper than in-state public.

NP. Read through this thread, and this person just seems so nasty. Just because the other poster calls their statement false (which is annoying as it was their experience), they then attack the other poster's kid repeatedly. I get you being annoyed, but that just is an ugly look for you.

I think it must be true, though. That PP has been all over this thread claiming that anyone whose athlete kid got good merit aid at a D3 is lying, and that their kids are losers. She is almost hysterical in how hard she is lashing out at posters who report that their kids got very good merit aid offers, particularly cheaper than in-state tuition. Meanwhile, that PPs child is the grandchild of a longtime D1 coach and selective head of admissions. So, she doesn’t know anything about D3 athletic merit aid, even though she says her kid tried to get it (but failed), but somehow her kid ended up playing D1? There is only one rational conclusion here.

Holy. F**king. Sh*t. There is no such thing.

LOL. “Athletic merit aid.” No, this isn’t a thing. Coaches at opposing schools would absolutely pounce on schools trying to get around rules for D3 sports by going “athletic merit aid.”

I got a full scholarship to a D3 LAC. Weirdly, I also a letter from the coach of my HS sport (whom I had never met or spoken to) thanking me for “committing to the team.” I never answered the coach, never played the sport, and my scholarship was not affected.

And yet that’s obviously WHY they gave you the merit aid. In your case it was a gamble that didn’t pay off for them in any way. The fact that you can so clearly lay out the facts of what happened and yet still not “get it” proves that you were otherwise unworthy of “merit” aid.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as an athletic full ride at D3 schools. Meaning, even if you are a D1 level athlete and want to attend, say, Randolph Macon College in Ashland, they simply can not come up with any scheme to get you 4 years for free.

- signed, father of a D1 athlete that actually wanted to go to a smaller school and be a student athlete.

NP. They can certainly give you extremely significant merit aid. My kid was awarded enough in merit aid that the private D3 was cheaper than instate.

That's simply false. You're not going to convince me because we tried every way possible for my kid to do this and the only 'free' offers at the end of the day were D1.

Your kid was either not good enough or not smart enough.

Wut? A kid who plays D1 isn't good enough to play D3? You ate a lot of crayons as a child, didn't you?

Yes. You obviously know nothing about the current college sports landscape. Transfer portal has changed everything. Your D1 kid wasn’t good enough to get good D3 money. Sorry to break it to you.

Also, the crayons attempted insult is extremely uncreative and dull. At least try to show some intelligence.

There is no D3 money. My father was a D1 coach for 22 years and my FIL was Chief of Admissions at a highly selective university. But keep telling yourself your loser kid is great.

Well, since you obviously used family connections to wedge your benchwarmer kid into a D1 slot he would not otherwise have earned on his own merit, I see now why you don’t understand how D3 merit aid works for kids who are top recruits. Your posts make a lot more sense now.

For kids who are actually good, there is a lot of money available, enough to make the schools cheaper than in-state public.

NP. Read through this thread, and this person just seems so nasty. Just because the other poster calls their statement false (which is annoying as it was their experience), they then attack the other poster's kid repeatedly. I get you being annoyed, but that just is an ugly look for you.

I think it must be true, though. That PP has been all over this thread claiming that anyone whose athlete kid got good merit aid at a D3 is lying, and that their kids are losers. She is almost hysterical in how hard she is lashing out at posters who report that their kids got very good merit aid offers, particularly cheaper than in-state tuition. Meanwhile, that PPs child is the grandchild of a longtime D1 coach and selective head of admissions. So, she doesn’t know anything about D3 athletic merit aid, even though she says her kid tried to get it (but failed), but somehow her kid ended up playing D1? There is only one rational conclusion here.

Holy. F**king. Sh*t. There is no such thing.

I’m a PP, not the PP, who worked in D3 college business office as a work study student. I saw the financials for nearly every classmate during those 4 years. As I mentioned before, I know athletes who received merit and were also talented students. And I saw some athletes receive merit and were kinda “meh” in the classes I had with them. Did they receive an athletic scholarship, no. Did their athletic talent may have something to do with why they received merit, probably yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Bill Simmons is a popular sports podcast host and worth $200 million dollars. Even he was a swooped up into the travel sports craziness for years and would claim his daughter was going to go play D1 soccer. She ended up walking on to some D3 club team at an obscure New England college.

Emerson isn’t obscure in the communications field.

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Anonymous wrote:Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

Intermural beats D3? lol. A top D3 in most sports is full of kids that could have played mid/low D1 but preferred to balance sports with an education.

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One could just smile and say “congratulations.”

Sometimes people tell themselves stories. It costs nothing to let them.

“Congrats, you must be so proud.” Then you move on with your own life.