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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ No such thing as a sports scholarship at [b]Division 2 and 3 [/b]regional public and podunk private colleges. And most of the student-athletes at D1s are on partial scholarships, if anything.[/quote]

They do get scholarships but disguised as aid (either merit or need based).

I had a DIII coach recruiting me heavily for a sport.  I had excellent grades, GPA, and test scores.  He brought me and my parents in for a meeting with a financial aid representative to discuss packages that they could award me as merit aid.  If I picked that school, the aid would have covered 100% of my tuition, room & board.

I ended up not choosing them but a teammate of mine did.  We kept in touch and she said everyone on the team there was on a full ride or mostly full ride through aid.  I declined going there because I wasn't 100% sure I wanted to keep playing the sport after HS.  The years of practice took a toll on me and playing it felt more like a chore than something I wanted to do.  Luckily, I had supportive parents who let me make the choice on my own and didn't push.  I know it was hard on them to see me quit after everything they'd poured into helping make me so great at the sport.

I know a lot of student athletes quit after the first year to save face.  They'd rather quit than get put on academic probation and benched.  Also, at DIII schools, academic &gt; athletics.  The professors are much less apt to really work with you regarding missing work and tests.  DI players get a lot of leeway in that area.  Many leave the DIII school because they were only there to play a sport that's paying their way and they didn't really like the school to begin with, so once they end up riding the bench/not making a starting position, they're left with putting in all the work athletically at a place they didn't really want to be in the first place.  I had more than a few teammates who left because of that.        [/quote]

So much just not true or wildly atypical in this post. So full of it. [/quote]

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