PABaseball,
In my son's case (10 years ago), yes to 1) above in the first part. Athletic was to be calculated after academic scholarship was awarded at a D1 school post ED application. This was annoying for us as there were a lot of little steps that had to be done in sequence and they had interdependecies in the application process. So son had to apply ED to get accepted and then the academic scholarship awarded with some financial wiggle room for the school. This was a complicated process and we got different answers from the coaches, admissions and the athletic liason who's job it is to make this easy. I was pulling my hair out. We kept going back and forth. My son considered this school for physics and chemistry but ended up passing on it for a D1 HA engineering school that was need based FA (approximately same amount as 50% as the other school). Problem solved.