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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my niece can continue to play her sport in college. The issue is two-fold.[b] Her daughter is simply good not great at her sport (which her parents refuse to accept) [/b]and the family is only middle class. They have no college savings, so debt will fuel this. Is it sports obsessed parents’ egos that refuse to let it go? They can’t admit ten years of sports efforts simply conclude in 12th grade?

Is there any way to convince them they’re about to make a terrible financial decision? The family is going to end up with a lot of debt, their daughter will likely quit the sport once she can do what she wants, and likely, the daughter hates the no-name private college where she knows nobody. Isn’t that how this usually plays out?[/quote]  If you are so knowledgeable about this sport and about her ability level, then you should know that many kids play for D3 schools through great financial packages.  And have great experiences at those schools.  I know a few myself.   Clearly, you have no idea what you are speaking of. Don't embarrass yourself by bringing up this nonsense to your SIL.[/quote]

Why are you using the strange phrasing “great financial packages”? You know there are no sports scholarships at d3. And you know there is no free lunch. They dupe these student-athlete parents into attending with fake scholarship discounts and end up costing gullible middle class families a boatload of money and loans. And most kids quit the sport. And often the kids transfer out. It’s setting a middle class kid up for disaster to go to some random school solely to continue a sport. There are far more resources for such a student at a selective state university.[/quote]

Hahahahaha, what? DH had a full ride athletic scholarship at a D3. He turned it down for a full D1 package only because the D1 school was closer to his very ill mother. Do you know anything?[/quote]

There is no such thing as an athletic scholarship at D3. Maybe your husband was low income and he’s confusing means-based aid with “athletic scholarship.” Sounds like it was decades ago and he was a mere teenager, right.[/quote]

Not the PP. My kid was recruited by several D3 schools. We did not apply for financial aid. When the admissions offers came, DC got extremely large merit aid packages from some of them. The offers were large enough that they would have been cheaper than in-state. This was true of all the top-pick athletes on the team — the kids told DC about their various packages during the recruit weekends.

It’s actually better than the D1 scholarship offers because it’s not dependent on remaining on the team.[/quote]

Different poster here.  Great for you and great for your kid, but doesn’t change the fact that Division III does not offer athletic scholarships. [/quote]

The point is that they effectively do offer athletic scholarships, just not official ones. They don’t call them athletic scholarships, but when top recruits get massive merit aid packages, the practical difference between an official athletic scholarship and merit aid is minimal.

The term “athletic scholarship” is colloquially often used more broadly than the D1, full letter of intent context. People who are using the official definition can get worked up by people using the colloquial terminology. However, that doesn’t change the fact that recruited athletes at D3s are often offered substantial merit aid that they often would not have gotten absent sports. [/quote]

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