My understanding is that every student gets academic money the same as every other student, that is you get the same as every other student with the same performance academically as you. You can't just decide to give it to an athlete just because, but if that athlete qualifies he gets it. At one school my son would have gotten almost 100% academic money. Where he ended up he got 10% but had to maintain a certain GPA to keep that money each year. This seems fair to me. To single out a certain group seems unfair.