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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]We are curious about the private high school recruiting process for student athletes and how we can get our DC exposure to either a football or baseball program? How do student athletes get identified and is there a higher percentage of acceptance if they are being recruited for sports?[/quote]

If you are recruited to a WCAC school
It’s 100% acceptance unless you score something crazy low in the HPST…like in the 40s.

We reached out to the baseball coach at SJC and he watched a tournament where my son was playing and my son also did the Summer camp for middle schoolers at SJC.[/quote]

May I ask what your son’s financial package was?[/quote]

Zero…there are no athletic scholarships and we are very much full pay.

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That’s correct they don’t offer athletic scholarships but they absolutely find a way to get kids money depending on how bad they want you whether you need it or not. We know a few kids in the WCAC that don’t qualify for need based aid but because they want a kid, they offer financial assistance. [/quote]
If financial assistance (i.e. a scholarship) is awarded due to sports performance and isn't need based, that's called an athletic scholarship.[/quote]

No. It’s called Financial Aid.

A concept few on here understand. The school can give whatever FA they want for whatever reason.

Financial need is just one thing they look at. This isn’t some government program where they look at a table for the amount applicants get.

It’s their money. There are NO rules that require them to distribute the funds in any way.

If you don’t know what FA is and how it is administered, it’ll remain a mystery to you.

It’s not a poverty program, it’s an enrollment management tool. If they could get a class with all the attributes they want without offering FA, they would.[/quote]

Unless a school is completely crooked (and their conference rivals would absolutely report them)...if you are a BigLaw partner in DC and your kid is legitimately the next Bryce Harper, you aren't receiving a nickel of financial aid.  Unlike Stanford where you can be Elon Musk's kid but if your kid is the next Bryce Harper he still attends for free (because they award athletic scholarships).

Now, if you legitimately qualify for say $5,000 based on what they see on paper, then it's easy to start factoring in other "life circumstances" to show that in fact you actually deserve $25,000.  You can claim you are caring for your sick parent that needs a FT nurse or all kinds of things...unclear how closely anyone is checking that if again your kid is the next Bryce Harper.[/quote]

You really don’t understand how FA works here. FA is a tool in the Admissions process. The basis for awards is both quantitative and subjective. It’s the subjective part that seems to be escaping you.

Citing extreme cases, like you have, shows you don’t get how it works. The overwhelming majority of FA recipients get 1/4th or 1/3rd of tuition reduction. Very, very few get 75%+.And a lot that do get these big packages are outstanding athletes who without the FA wouldn’t be able to attend. They are also sometimes outstanding students or bring other things to the party.

Have there been FA awards to very good athletes whose family has the resources to send them? A few, where the family has leverage or are good at manipulating the system. But that’s extremely rare.

Are these relatively large FA awards “athletic scholarships”. I guess some would say so. (If it walks like a duck…) But technically they are not.[/quote]

It's not escaping me.  Basically 100% of FA recipients get $$$s because they qualify for $$$s.  The athletics gets them accepted probably with stats lower than the average student, and now all accepted students are evaluated for FA for the most part based on their financial circumstances.

I don't know if you are specifically only referring to say a WCAC school now vs. say a Sidwell.  At Sidwell, like 25% of kids get FA and the average aid amount is over $40k.  I think a fair number get 100%, others get 75%, others 50%, others 25%, etc...to average to the $40k number.  If the basketball player comes from a poor family, they will get 100% FA regardless if their grades and SSAT scores perhaps were lower than the average Sidwell student.

I think we are all just making it clear that unlike D1 colleges that award athletic scholarships to everyone with the athletic ability regardless if they are paupers or billionaires, the private DMV schools don't work like this.  [b]If you are the next Bryce Harper or Kevin Durant or Patrick Mahomes and your family has money...you pay 100% to attend SJC or Sidwell or Prep or wherever.[/b][/quote]

This is not true. I know a few families who can afford private school, and they were offered 100% because the school wanted the kid for sports. Unfortunately, sports also generate some revenue and help the school's profile. No different than colleges before NIL, they do what they want. I won't name the school or parent, but I know for a fact the family has been offered 100%, and the school has even tried to get the kid to transfer from his current private school, where he also pays nothing.[/quote]

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