2020Hopeful posted:So last night at dinner out with some friends this topic came up. Some insisted that, even where their "official" financial aid estimators say zero aid, Ivy schools (and others with large endowments) can and often do adjust their "need-based" parameters so that they can offer money to athletes. That's not the sense I'm getting from reading many of the threads here, but wondered if anyone has knowledge of this?
Not an athlete, but with my oldest (senior at Davidson), we were told that we were getting -0- which was expected. In April, they offered money, about 25% of total estimated cost. She had already decided Davidson, however this would not have altered her decision. Edit: Princeton