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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scholarships can be increased. If money isn't available freshman year because of those fifth year seniors sticking around she can think of it as a year-long tryout to prove her worth for when that money frees up next year.[/quote]

This is not a one year only thing. NCAA allows all current students an extra year of eligibility, so you could see some effects for the next 4 years. It could reduce incoming class sizes for up to 4 years. Players on the cusp of making a college squad may not get in at all.[/quote]

You're misunderstanding what the players staying on a fifth year are tying up. The issue isn't the number of roster spots, it's the number of athletic scholarship dollars available. The coaches can still take the same number of incoming freshman, they just won't have as much athletic scholarship free up if scholarship players who were expected to leave choose to stay. If your kid had good priorities and a good GPA they'll get academic money instead of athletic to make up for it. [/quote]

Either way, it's not a great situation. Less money, and less playing time than normal. And I don't see schools subsiding the lack of athletic money with academic money.  The extra year of eligibility puts incoming freshmen who are on the cusp at a disadvantage, and it will last for years.[/quote]

So, go to VT on a quarter or go to ODU on a full. What would you do?

Let's say the difference is 80,000 savings over 4 years.
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What is the best-school-but-no-scholarship option, and what does she want to study?[/quote]

Put.all that aside....i really want to hear what people have to say on this.......

Your kid, a very good player, gets an offer to play out of state at Notre Dame on a partial (25 percent) scholarship. Its your kids dream school. Your kid also has offers to play in-state at JMU, ODU and Mason on a full ride.

What would you want your kid to choose? [/quote]

There are three or four different context to consider here. What are your DD’s academic goals and abilities? Soccer goals (no pun intended) and abilities? your family’s financial situation? Your DD’s desire or not to stay close to home?

For a good student who is good enough to get on the field for ND, a top 30 soccer school in the ACC, [i]who wants to keep moving forward as far as she can in soccer[/i], and whose family is both OK with the distance and OK with the $$ outlay, why not Notre Dame?  You’re still getting 25% off sticker price which isn’t a bad deal.

If financials mean the family needs to take the full scholarship, but the DD still wants as high a level of soccer as she can get, then looking at the NCAA D1 rankings the choice would be first ODU, then JMU, then GMU. All three are excellent schools where she’ll get as good an education as she wants.

If the best soccer available isn’t a priority for DD, then the academics and atmospherics should drive the choice among the three remaining schools. Where are the programs she wants? Where does she feel comfortable? How close to home does she want to be? Does she want a big campus or something else?

No absolute right answers, just answers that are right for each family given its situation. [/quote]

I want to respond to the statement about continuing soccer career.  If your child is still thinking after college they have a chance of having a  soccer career, it is up to you as the parent to break out the stats.  If they were going to be scouted for a professional team, it should've happened while they were in HS.  Yes, there are exceptions to this rule.  Soccer in US doesn't follow the traditional professional football/basketball recruiting models.[/quote]

the previous poster used the acronym "DD"... I think your statement is correct for boys... but the NWSL draft was somewhere around 39/40 graduating college seniors... so your statement isn't quite correct for girls. [/quote]

I was just going to say this.  Girl must almost always go to college first for pro opportunities. Boys not so much. They can easily get picked up very young. [/quote]

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