Division III

No, but if you have the grades, you may qualify for some academic money.

They don't call it an athletic scholarship but rather a grant in aid money as well as accademic money. You can also get subsidised stafford money which doesn't have to get paid back. I know from experiance you can do very well going this route. You have to apply to the school to find all this out but you don't have to commit.

plash3 is right. what some athletes will do is to apply to multiple schools and then review the financial aid packages before making their decision on which school to attend. you'll want to keep track of admissions application deadline dates because some fall early in the school year, nov. and dec. etc.
some have very competitive admissions.

Make sure you identify each school on your FASFA aplication. They can be added after the fact if nessasary. My son applied to app. 10/12 schools and recieved varying amounts of all different kinds of aid. I made up an Excell spread sheet to track all the different colleges and noted such items as major available, $amount offered, team record, tuition, location, ect. You can tailor it any way you'ld like. It proved invalueble because things get real confuseing real fast. It's been like a hobby for me for the last year. Being my son inked his LOI last week I'll have to spend my time helping others like you. Good luck.

You also built the mega spreadsheet Mine ended up with nearly 100 schools!!!! Incredibly helpful...

While this may be obvious to most, the following was a big part of our analysis. The net cost is what matters, not the size of the grant.

For example, School A has a COA of 43,000 and give you a package of 18,000 in merit money - net cost is 25,000. School B costs 38,000 and only gives you 15,000 - net cost is 23,000. Even though school B gave you less, net cost is what matters.

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My son begs to differ with you about what matters most. At his request I had to add a column on my spreadsheet for Male/Female Ratio. You need to rethink your priorities Dad.

Too funny!!! I should have added a column!!!

plash3....that was funny !

be sure to look closely at what each school includes in their Cost of Attendance (COA). are there any required fees that need to be included? not a bad idea to track not only for first year but for second year as well as costs may go down............ for example, if student is required to live on campus for first year but can move off campus second year there are sometimes savings realized from that........or perhaps there is an orientation fee for first year only..............you get the picture. take the COA minus free money (grants and scholarships) to get your out of pocket expense for each school. some f/a packages will be heavier on loans than others.

be sure to track scholarship application deadlines too as those are sometimes early in the school year as well.

Lets get real here!!!

Does a young man entering college who is concerned about furthering his baseball career truly have an interest in the ratio of male to female students?

If that is one of the young mans criteria than I think that he is not truly serious and I would worry about it

I have never in all my experience had a player ask me that about a college--most ask about the whether I know anything about the coach and the academic support

Son applied to four DIII schools. He wanted a small student body, we wanted rockin' academics, and we all wanted great baseball. After the aid offers came back, three of the schools would have cost us almost nothing. He chose the one that is going to cost us quite a bit. That's okay. It's where he wants to go, it's where I wanted to see him go, it's where the coaches wanted him the most, and once mom sees the place in August, she'll understand why he has chosen this to be his home for 4 years. Besides, they have the best baseball, and we loved the coaches!

And, yes, he noted that the male-female ratio is definitely in his favor!

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Originally posted by plash3:
They don't call it an athletic scholarship but rather a grant in aid money as well as accademic money. You can also get subsidised stafford money which doesn't have to get paid back. I know from experiance you can do very well going this route. You have to apply to the school to find all this out but you don't have to commit.

Just to clarify, a subsidized stafford DOES have to be paid back. It doesn't collect interest until the student graduates or gives up school. A non-subsidized stafford begins to collect interest immediately upon loan. A pell grant doesn't have to be paid back.

Plash3, the spreadsheet sounds like a good idea, although I am not very smart at making these things up. Could you send it to me? aeagle1@comcast.net. And if I am understanding this correctly, the DIII schools will find a way of getting the extra money to you if they want your son to play for them since they don't have the athletic schollys to give? This sound great because my son would love to play for Carthedge College in WI. They have the program he wants to study and I have heard great things about the coach and the baseball program.

I'll try and send my spreadsheet to you tomorrow. I;m not computer savy myself but I'll scan it in at work then e-mail it to you. You can fill in thec blanks any way you want. For what it's worth I checked out that school you mentioned and it looks real good. Great record, nice facilities, good web site. I can understand you enthusiam. Good Luck.