Toughest sport to get college athletic scholarship

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Anonymous wrote:Basketball and football are the only sports to give full rides for everyone on the roster.

Every other sports get a handful and spread the wealth amongst the team in the form of partial. So consider spending tons of money on your kid and unless DC is absolute beast, the odds of getting full ride are not that great outside of those 2 sports.

Basketball and football do not give full rides to everyone on the roster. For basketball, teams have 13 scholarships (not all of which are always awarded) and will dress 13 players on game day. But, some scholarship kids will redshirt and kids will be injured. The difference is made up of walk ons -- non scholarship players. There are many more athletes involved in fielding an NCAA team than the number of scholarship players. Teams will have a practice squad that will learn the plays of opponents and scrimmage against the rotation players in practice. Walk ons will sometimes move between those groups.

Football is a full ride unless you decide to be a walk-on for D1 - look at the rules! Basketball for men is a full ride unless you decide to be a walk-on. Look at the rules.

Not entirely true. These sports can give partial scholarships, but it still counts as a full “head” thus, not freeing up any space for more athletes to share the scholarship so to speak.

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Anonymous wrote:OP take a look at this. Looks like tennis might be the toughest due to number of foreigners

https://scholarshipstats.com/

Field hockey is like that too. Look at the great schools (UNC). Many are all from Europe.

Field hockey is 4 times more likely for an American to get a scholarship

Do you have a stat for that? I attended a recruiting seminar recently that said the opposite. And those scholarships are not all full rides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women’s gymnastics

Nearly impossible to get a scholarship

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Tennis is hardest men’s for Americans

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My kids college athletic scholarship is my 529 plan. Already have 600k in the plan for two kids, LOL

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Fencing

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Anonymous wrote:Fencing

Fencing is a joke it’s actually the easiest

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Anonymous wrote:My kids college athletic scholarship is my 529 plan. Already have 600k in the plan for two kids, LOL

We had around that for each child thanks to the crazy market of the last few years, and one of our older kids has ended up with an athletic scholarship that covers 70% of the costs. I learned over on the financial forum that you can draw an amount equal to the scholarship from the kid’s 529 penalty free, paying taxes only on the gains (at either the parents rate or the kid’s depending who will be receiving the money). Something useful to keep in mind for anyone who ends up in this situation and doesn’t need the 529 $ for subsequent kids.

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Bump. What’s the easiest? I’m a Tiger mom looking for any edge

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Anonymous wrote:Bump. What’s the easiest? I’m a Tiger mom looking for any edge

If your kid is good football. They just have to make a team.

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Anonymous wrote:Bump. What’s the easiest? I’m a Tiger mom looking for any edge

Fencing is a joke

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Anonymous wrote:Ping pong is my pick

yo-yo’ing

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my son plays hockey and it would have been better to just save the money; could probably pay for 1.5 years of college when all is said and done. JK. I mean, that is true, but we are not doing it for a scholarship. Same is probably true for all those paying for travel soccer year after year though.

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Easiest is probably lax or fencing- 5 scholarships but it’s more regional

Hardest is maybe mens Tennis- only 4.5 scholarships and foreign competition

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Anonymous wrote:Bump. What’s the easiest? I’m a Tiger mom looking for any edge

Fencing is a joke

Fencing is HARD, it is not a joke and you have to be super fit. Unless you are involved with it you likely don't appreciate it. It's called physical chess for a reason. It is a big mental game.