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@Long415 posted:
Point of order - when discussing a 25% or 75% offer (or whatever), what is the denominator? Is it the full cost a student/family needs to go to school for the year - whatever the university estimates as full cost of attendance?
ex: It’s tuition, but is it off-campus food? It’s books, but is it travel to/from school?
Or is it different case by case?

I would say it is what the school says is full cost of attendance. When my son opened his recruiting this past summer and we talked offers with schools, we always would first go through all the costs of attendance. Tuition, housing, books, meal plans, and any other fees that were required of the student. Then we would bounce the athletic money number against that cost of attendance to come up with the percentage. We never included discretionary spending costs or the cost of transportation (airline tickets) to get back and forth to school.

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