RKBH, I PM'd you.
Does it help that you are an athlete to get an academic merit-based scholarship? Will the college coach help you get it?
Nonomimi5,
it absolutely helps for your student athlete to be a great student and to earn merit-based aid because it reduces the amount of athletic aid a coach will have to use/offer to entice you to play at their school. It also tells the coach that you will be academically eligible to play immediately. Take a look at the NCAA requirements for eligiblity as well here http://www.ncaa.org/student-at...ay-division-i-sports. Merit based aid is going to be determined by the school based on your athlete's academic record and test scores in most cases, not influenced by a coach.
Athletes get no special consideration in determining academic scholarships. All students - athletes and non-athletes - compete on equal terms for these awards.
Goosegg posted:Athletes get no special consideration in determining academic scholarships. All students - athletes and non-athletes - compete on equal terms for these awards.
In addition at some privates institutional aid cannot be used with athletic aid. Depending on the criteria It is either/or and not together.
As to academics, keep in mind also that under current NCAA rules, if a player receives merit aid it will count against the program's 11.7 scholarship limit unless the student meets one of three criteria:
1) 3.5 gpa; or
2) top 10% of his graduating class; or
3) 105 sum ACT score.
Which means, for example, if a coach offers you a 50% scholarship and then you receive a 25% scholarship for merit aid, but don't meet the above, he will either have to decrease your athletic aid to 25% or take a .75 scholarship hit against the limit rather than the .5 he had planned on.
Good point, Roothog. We have a 2017 kid at my son's school who is committed to a PAC-12 with a 3.8 GPA and I know this boy's merit aid was a factor in his recruiting.
BackstopDad32 posted:Goosegg posted:Athletes get no special consideration in determining academic scholarships. All students - athletes and non-athletes - compete on equal terms for these awards.
In addition at some privates institutional aid cannot be used with athletic aid. Depending on the criteria It is either/or and not together.
Backstop - we experienced the same thing at one school in particular. Son met the requirement as Root outlined, but they still didn't allow combining.
SanDiegoRealist posted:RKBH, I PM'd you.
SDRealist, could you please PM me as well? I'd like to know how high academics have to be to get merit aid in PAC12.
Bogeyorpar posted:SanDiegoRealist posted:RKBH, I PM'd you.
SDRealist, could you please PM me as well? I'd like to know how high academics have to be to get merit aid in PAC12.
I PM'd you, but the quick answer is each school is different as far as how they give out merit aid. ASU is generous to a fault.
roothog66 posted:https://www.sportsforceonline....08b24287a275cf6b0819
This article brings up a subject that I've had to deal with during my son's recruitment. We live in Colorado who has very limited D1 baseball opportunities and very limited reciprocal financial agreements with other states. Setting aside Air Force for obvious reasons, Colorado has ONE D1 baseball program - Northern Colorado. Neither the U of Colorado or Colorado State have baseball programs. What does this mean for us? It means that school budgets come into play. I'll give you the best example.
My so is quite interested in the University of Arkansas for a number of personal reasons. Resident tuition for the school is just over $8k / yr. Non-resident tuition is just over $23k / yr. Arkansas has reciprocal tuition deals with every boarder state as well as Kansas and Illinois. Kids from those states can enter Arkansas and pay basically 110% of in-state tuition. The program has, of course, 11,7 scholarships available, but they also have a recruiting budget. So, if they are looking at filling a spot and are looking at my son and a kid from Missouri, they have to take into account that a, say 50% offer, will cost them almost $12k from their operating budget per year for my kid, but only just over $4.5k/yr to get the Missouri kid. So, if there is enough talent in that region, my son would need to be significantly better than other options for offering him to make sense. It would also make sense that they would wait longer to make that decision.
For us, I'm starting to see, then, just how important it is to target schools that have significantly better opportunities for fee waivers or non-resident scholarships. For Colorado, there is a program that includes several Western Schools that allow a student to attend from out-of-state for 150% of in-state tuition. That makes him more attractive to a coach. Other schools have great fee waivers for out-of-state students who meet certain benchmarks. Some Texas schools, for example, waive the difference between in-state and non-resident tuition for any student who receives at least $1k in scholarship money from a source that any Texas student could have competed for.
Another factor is private schools. While at first glance, the high cost looks like a negative factor, the actuality can be quite different. Many of the private schools have large grants that allow them to give financial aid to a large number of students - often students from families that you would not think of as financial need types. I believe Stanford, for example, gives the full amount of tuition to any student from a family that has a household income below $125K.
It's certainly a bigger factor in targeting your recruiting efforts than most people recognize.
Great post/topic root. So so true. Been trying to explain to my son til blue in the face he needs minimum 3.5fpa and academic money if he wants to have choices about baseball. Otherwise it's time to fatten up for football!