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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh I hate not being rich right now. DC has athletic recruiting offers to some top SLAC schools, but they don't do athletic or merit scholarships. I ran the NPCs and we get zero financial aid at all of them, but they're just too expensive for us to pay full price.

Now DC has to either 1) go to lower ranked schools offering athletic/merit scholarships or 2) forego athletic recruitment and just apply EA to state schools or shot gun in regular decision in hopes of merit.

Tonight I have to tell DC that they can't go to either of the SLAC's that they really want and have offers to. And we're not prepared with essays because we spent oodles of time on recruiting on top of an intensive year round sports schedule.

I hope this serves as a cautionary tale for donut hole parents of younger athletic recruits. Don't waste your time on recruiting unless you can either pay full price, your kid is good enough to get a hefty scholarship at one of the few good schools that offers athletic scholarships *and wants to go to these larger schools*, or you qualify for significant FA.[/quote]

My guess is you could have learned all of this about the finances (no athletic money, what the NPC came to, etc.) well before now. My guess is also that you are framing everything into doom and gloom. Example: A kid applying EA still has plenty of time to write essays. He would have had essays even if he recruited so it wasn't as if his prior path was ever going to be essay-free.

If your kid has offers already and is "out of time" for essays, I assume he is a senior in HS. Recruited seniors show things like their transcripts, senior courses, maybe a list of ECs, and they have significant communications with the coaches over a longish period of time. I have no idea why you would not have considered affordability until September because the things in the prior sentence are generally done over a longish process.

The cautionary tale should be:

Everyone should know that D3 schools and ivy leagues offer no athletic money.

Start your essays early in all cases.

Run the NPC early and stop chasing a school for whatever reason, including athletics, if you can't afford it.[/quote]

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