Academic / Athletic scholly

My son's personal experience with two schools (fyi, he ended up at neither)

1.An out-of-state SEC school seemed to work very hard (athletic dept. with academics) to get as much academic money as they could for him (ex: telephone call one day, "can you get us "such&such asap"?..we've got the assistant AD going to personally take it over to honors dept", etc.)

2. An in-state ACC school seemed hesitant to blaze any trails for us, making reference to "bright futures", etc.

I think my general answer based on this is "yes, but depends on particulars of each university."

Though the costs to attend the in-state college was roughly half of out-of-state, at the time the process stopped for each of these, the net costs for him to attend each would have been about the same.

It is probably different at each college but at the school my son chose, he had already turned in his common application before an offer was made by the coach. When the coach called to make the offer they already had his grades and SAT scores from his official visit. The coach said he would talk to admissions to see what kind of an academic scholarship he would be eligible for and get back to us.

As it turned out, based on grades & SAT scores the admissions office offered him( via the coach) the Presidents scholarship (the most academic money offered). I'm not sure if my son would have been offered this if he was just a regular student without the support of the coach but he knows non-athletes at his school that are receiving the same scholly.

Hey Daddybo,

Where did your guy end up?

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Originally posted by floridafan:
Hey Daddybo,

Where did your guy end up?

That's an easy one - the Black Knights of Army!

Not as observent as I once was...

yep.."scholarships" are calculated a little differently at USMA.