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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]

It's amazing how you can make "low-income" sound demeaning even with regards to a man who got into a D1 school.[/quote]

It’s amazing how student-athletes and their parents can continue to lie. It’s fascinating how every mediocre student-athlete at every podunk college got practically a “full ride” athletic scholarship, even at D3 schools which literally do not and can not give athletic scholarships!

How is this possible? Because these parents can’t stop lying. Nobody can just admit they or their kid is just good not great at the sport and they paid big bucks (or went into debt) to keep playing a sport at the next level.[/quote]

DP. You sound a bit unhinged with all of your ranting, PP. You clearly have an axe to grind about "mediocre" student-athletes. Besides, who the hell cares what decisions other people make?? Sheesh.[/quote]

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