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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an athletic recruit at Princeton and paid full freight. If there was some way around that no one told me. But everything had gotten crazier so maybe this has changed.[/quote]

I was also an athletic recruit to Princeton from a middle class family, and received no FA.   I was able attend Princeton only because of a full tuition ROTC scholarship which required an 8 year military service committment.  I sure wish I had received one of these mysterious athletic scholarships that PP's say are readily available.....  [/quote]

That is a perfect example of a scholarship that is not FA. Not mysterious... is there a UMD grad who can show this Princeton grad how to google?[/quote]

I assume this poster is not trying to deliberately mislead people.  Going on that assumption, here's where the confusion may arise.

The Ivy League does NOT give athletic scholarships, nor do they award merit scholarships.  They fund financial aid out of endowment.  The Ivies, as is the case with most schools, encourage donors to give to the unrestricted operating fund or, at most, to earmark donations for financial aid generally.  In the past (and perhaps still if the size of the gift is big enough), donors would earmark their gifts so that it could go to fund a specific type of student -- say, an athlete or musician or student at the Woodrow Wilson School.  If you receive money from an endowed fund as part of your Financial Aid package, if the donors are still alive you might well receive a notation that part of your aid was from the "Jones Family Student Athlete Scholar Fund."  HOWEVER, it's really just accounting.  You can't receive money from such an endowed fund unless you qualify for Financial Aid, and it replaces the unrestricted grant you would otherwise get.  Money is fungible.  If nobody qualifies for the fund, the money rolls over for another day.[/quote]

Bumping this explanation in response to the poster who keeps asserting that Ivy League schools can dodge the prohibition on athletic scholarships by giving what the poster terms as "endowed scholarships."   Regardless of the source of the money (named, endowed fund given by a sports-minded donor or the general operating funds of the school), Ivy League athletes cannot receive aid without a finding from the school that they qualify for Financial Aid, and the amount of the award is capped by the amount of need found.  Any supposed "private aid" (if that is what this poster is talking about) would be an NCAA violation -- all aid must go through the school.  Not sure what is complicated about this fact, which leads me to believe it is possible the "endowed scholarship" poster is out to deliberately mislead and thus gin up false controversy.[/quote]

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