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

[Anonymous]

I have heard of D3s giving athletes full scholarships, but they're not called athletic scholarships. So, it's possible. Perhaps the athlete is better than you realize, or at least good enough to fill a spot on the team. Another option is that they qualifued for financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of small, not prestigious, not selective D3 schools give everybody tons of merit aid.

D3 schools can't give sports scholarships, but I assume this family is betting that you don't know that so that is why they are bragging this way.

It is possible that they receive some extra merit aid compared to the next person for some leadership award or something like that which mysteriously always goes to athletes.

If a coach gets the student merit aid it’s essentially a sports scholarship.

Sure they don’t call it that. Loophole.

I know a recruited athlete whose twin was awarded the full ride. NESCAC. You kind of have to admire the school for working that particular loophole.

Me too. Now she’s in med school specializing in reconstructive surgery.

They even gave her a stipend on top of that.

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Anonymous wrote:If the choice is small school in the middle of nowhere for free or small school in the middle of nowhere for 50k a year it doesn't matter if you are UMC, paying for college in scenario is asanine and quite frankly none of your business. They throw money at kids for a reason, D3 sports is not a cakewalk... all of the extra time and energy for none of the great facilities and playing for nobody. It's basically club ball with a lot of parents in folding chairs on the grass. I know one kid that went to play at some no-name school with 400 students and they had to farm their own food. They were miserable.

Name the school or it didn't happen. And the school can't be Berea.

Not Berea and it did happen. You not believing it is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:Ffs, either congratulate them or mind your own business.

Why would you congratulate someone who is lying to your face?

You are starting to sound downright psychotic. Do you really not see that?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

An average athlete who can't handle AP courses and took multiple attempts on the ACT to eke out a 26 is not going to medical school. Maybe like a nursing school candidate.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

+1 Good reminder not to share too much about your kids. This kid's parents probably thought they were commiserating with a friend over her testing and now she's on here talking about the girl like she's an idiot because she doesn't want to believe anything good could have happened for her. Gross.

Don't put it on social media, don't participate in the college athletic commitment ceremony in the high school gym, and don't spread falsehoods to other parents about your kid's alleged full ride scholarship to a small division 3 college.

Why not? OP, you seem convinced that this student could never have been awarded even full tuition at a small school, or indeed any school. Or that this student could have been welcomed onto a D3 team as part of the reason why the school wants them. You seem certain that this CHILD'S success and their family's happiness for them are an elaborate lie concocted for social media and acted out before large crowds of people in public.

If you wanted an arrangement like this for your own kid, you would have had to have them apply to.a school that would embrace them like this. Clearly you preferred not to. But you are free to post what you like on social media about your own kid's successes, too, and to celebrate them. You are also free to ignore what others post.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of small, not prestigious, not selective D3 schools give everybody tons of merit aid.

D3 schools can't give sports scholarships, but I assume this family is betting that you don't know that so that is why they are bragging this way.

It is possible that they receive some extra merit aid compared to the next person for some leadership award or something like that which mysteriously always goes to athletes.

If a coach gets the student merit aid it’s essentially a sports scholarship.

Sure they don’t call it that. Loophole.

I know a recruited athlete whose twin was awarded the full ride. NESCAC. You kind of have to admire the school for working that particular loophole.

Are you claiming that someone from an UMC background was awarded a full merit scholarship to an NESCAC for sports (i.e., had no financial need)? And that the kid had a 26 ACT, a weak transcript, and no other achievements?

I think you are likely significantly diminishing this kid's overall application and achievements.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

You're actually teaching your own lesson here. Kids have to become the best version of themselves. Colleges need a wide variety of such kids. Some of them will be great students. Some of them will be great athletes. No kid can check every box. If the schools you want don't seem to value your kid, try shopping different schools. I did so myself, and it turned out better than I could have imagined.

Not T20s/Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? OP how do you know all this?

PS - 26 is perfectly acceptable ACT score for many colleges

My child got lower and went T30 because of sports. People hate athletes.

People “hate” athletes because many would have absolutely no chance getting accepted to highly selective schools on their academic achievements, while our kids excel beyond belief and acceptance (not to mention scholarships) to these same highly selective schools are a lottery. My kid excels both in a niche sport, musical instrument AND academics.

you want a gold star, d-bag?

Ehhh, everybody would prefer having a kid who can perform surgery over a kid that can kick a ball far. No need to be butt hurt your kid falls into the latter.

lol. PP thinks med schools are full of people that never played a sport or something.

Able to “kick a ball far” and able to become a surgeon are not anywhere near mutually exclusive.

An average athlete who can't handle AP courses and took multiple attempts on the ACT to eke out a 26 is not going to medical school. Maybe like a nursing school candidate.

lol. I bet a student who barely graduates from hs, gets a bunch of Fs their first few semesters in an open admissions college, drops out to become an exotic dancer, then goes back to college with the intention of going to law school—one particular law school that they have fallen in love with after reading a novel partially set there—isn’t going to make it? Maybe a paralegal certificate would be more appropriate?

You make a lot of assumptions. That reflects on your intellectual ability and no one else’s.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about division 3 schools and athletic recruiting. Is this possible?

They are on the lower end of upper middle class. No hooks. Their senior is a good not great athlete. And not an especially noteworthy student. She was not in the most advanced AP courses and her parents kept having her retake the ACT and SAT because her scores were so mediocre. Best ACT sitting was 26 and she was too embarrassed to reveal SAT scores.

Why do you care? Serious question. Why is this important to you?

[Anonymous]

Most of these sporty d3 kids quit after a year and transfer out of the expensive private. It’s no fun going to college where you don’t know anyone, you play your sport in front of smaller crowds than high school games, you’re the worst player or lowest seniority and the coach plays favorites, so suddenly training at 6am or burning a weekend to travel to another podunk college doesn’t seem like a great use of time. And mom and dad are hours away and can’t be the boss of you anymore.

[Anonymous]

I think it was incumbent upon you to go to your friend's house, knock on their door, and demand of them to reveal their embarassingly low SAT score.

Who are they fooling? Hopefully, armed with this information you cant make up a sandwich board and parade around your town letting everyone know what's happening.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was incumbent upon you to go to your friend's house, knock on their door, and demand of them to reveal their embarassingly low SAT score.

Who are they fooling? Hopefully, armed with this information you cant make up a sandwich board and parade around your town letting everyone know what's happening.

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Anonymous wrote:OP you sound jealous or like you want to unearth a lie. Why not swim your own lane and don't worry about these people?

This! Jealous