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There doesn't need to be any shenanigans. At about 15-20 schools, there is financial aid available to each and every student, all of it grants (not loans), which of course means it is available to baseball players. See

https://www.texasmonthly.com/n...inancial-aid-policy/

Just by way of example, below is Stanford's. So if your family income is $175,000, at Stanford the kid will likely get 50%+ off the sticker price in grants, not loans, which sure beats a 25% baseball scholarship. Same is true for Vanderbilt and Duke, and  Rice just instituted a no-loan financial aid approach for incomes below $150,000, and the Ivies have been doing it for a number of years. So at Princeton, for example, 100% of families with incomes between $160,000 and $180,000 qualified for grants, and the average grant to them was $43,900. Again, that beats the heck out of a 25% baseball award.

 

Average Scholarship/Grant for the Class of 2020

The average amount of Scholarship and Grant from all sources received by need-based aid recipients in the current freshman class is $51,614. This includes $49,896 average scholarship from Stanford as well as grant funds received from federal, state and private resources. The table below shows the average scholarship and grant by income range for dependent students whose families live in the United States.

Total (Gross) Family IncomeAverage Scholarship and GrantAverage Net Cost% of applicants who qualify for scholarship aid from Stanford
*most who qualify have 2 (or more) children in college
Less than $ 65,00068,0974,83299%
65,000 - 95,00060,9637,82499%
95,000 - 125,00052,29516,039100%
125,000 - 155,00041,56226,81699%
155,000 - 185,00036,77531,58994%
185,000 - 215,00026,48141,91184%
215,000 - 245,000*17,92650,40171%
Greater than $245,000*20,12946,56834%
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