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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full ride scholarships are generally available only for division 1 football (85 scholarships per school), men's basketball (13), and women's basketball (15), tennis (8), gymnastics (12), and volleyball (12). That's it. Under NCAA rules, no other sports require full ride scholarships. Instead, the other sports are "equivalency" sports, with the limits set at total scholarships [i]equal[/i] to x full ride scholarships. So, for example, division 1 women's field hockey can have 12 equivalency scholarships. A coach is free to have 25 women on the team, and can divvy up the money among the 25 any way she wants. So a few players might get substantial scholarships, the rest won't get much. There are even fewer scholarships available at Division II schools (which generally speaking, aren't well known schools). There are NO athletic scholarships allowed at Division III schools. Any aid offered there must be financial aid or merit aid.

So the reality is, even for top athletes, there are very few full rides to college out there, unless you play football. As this article discusses, excluding football and basketball, the average athletic scholarship in 2004 was $8k.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&[/quote]

The real advantage to sports is the admissions edge, not the scholarship.   Sports help even if a student is not recruited.  Especially being a captain.[/quote]

This is very true.  I know four student athletes who gained entrance to colleges (two Ivy's and two very selective state schools) that they would not have otherwise been able to attend.   As PP said,, that is the real advantage.  Grades can be lower and other activities are less important in light of assumed dedication to a sport. [/quote]

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