Anonymous wrote:I know D3 schools are not permitted to offer athletic scholarships, but my understanding is that they sort of get around this by offering additional academic scholarships / financial aid money to kids they want for sports teams.

Anybody got any idea exactly how this works / how much this amounts to?

We would get the normal discounts with grades, testing, etc. then...
We sat with admissions officers that would tell us to fill out the FAFSA early as the school gets to choose how to allocate “need” money. This happened at several of the D3s my DC was talking to.

My DS received merit aid at his D3. His coach told him if he applied ED there would be “grant” money. He received a total of $37,000 a year. This was for baseball.

My son was offered a merit scholarship that covered slightly over half of tuition. He had good GPA and SAT scores so I don't know if athletics played a role.

Many D3s, public or private, give out merit based on academics. It’s very formula based. If you have x GPA and you got y on the SAT, you get $z in aid. Nothing to do with athletics. Basically helps bring down the costs of private schools to the public school level. Or if you can get it at a public D3 (CNU, UMW, etc…) helps stretch the savings into grad school.

Where there’s a will there’s a way. Especially with money.

Cmon, we have crappy people intellectually being pushed up to make it to the nba, nhl, nfl, etc

Look up the college/pro enslaving documentary

The private D3 schools have extremely expensive list prices and almost all students are getting some discount or scholarship. If it helps to hint to the family that the discount is due to sports, they are happy to tell you that. They collect the remaining $40K in tuition per year and move on to the next customer.

Sure, I'm sure schools would openly admit to doing this and get in trouble with the NCAA. Didn't we just have something called operation varsity blues?

I know D3 schools are not permitted to offer athletic scholarships, but my understanding is that they sort of get around this by offering additional academic scholarships / financial aid money to kids they want for sports teams.

Anybody got any idea exactly how this works / how much this amounts to?