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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin's daughter got into Princeton on a fencing scholarship. I plan on signing my 5 year old up this fall.[/quote]

There are no athletic scholarships to Princeton.  Maybe you meant to say she got into Princeton and was a a very good fencer.  So fencing may have helped her in admissions. [/quote]

There are, indeed. no scholarships to the Ivies.

But recruiting by Ivies for the marquis sports is very aggressive.

The Ivy League has a whole system set up  --- The Academic Index --- to regulate the effort.

And the FA given by Ivies is 100% in the form of grants and not loans or work study arrangements. So for all practical purposes these are scholarships.[/quote]

Only if your family qualifies for financial aid. If you can afford to pay full tuition to one of the top DC privates for 2 kids, you are not going to qualify for financial aid. Your typical DCUM "middle class" family with HHI of $200k with one kid in college is not going to receive any aid from Princeton. So being an elite athlete might boost admission chances, but won't make attending an Ivy any more affordable. Same goes for division 3 schools (eg NESCAC).[/quote]

This is not true about endowment scholarships they are not bound by the same rules as "Princeton" scholarships. Athletes (and many other students who don't qualify for FA) are given these types of scholarships, they are not financial aid. [/quote]

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