How many scholarships did you apply for?

There are a number of ways to pay for college. Searching out other scholarships is a good way. The baseball scholly paid a large portion (with me paing the balance) for my son's first three years. MLB paid the bill for him to complete his degree after he retired from pro ball.
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Does the college your son will be attending have merit aid available? What does it take to qualify? Check with admissions.

Your high school counseling department may help students apply for scholarships. At my son's high school the students could fill out paperwork and the counselors would match them with scholarships (if they qualified- usually grade related).

Any outside scholarships your son may get have to be cleared by his coach/school for NCAA purposes. Most scholarships also require the student to maintain a certain GPA to remain eligible.
Good luck!

Don't forget Little League Baseball, or for alot of us in the south, Dixie Youth Baseball. They offer scholarships to kids that played in their organization. Unfortunately, or depending how you look at it, fortunately, I think they award on an 'income need basis' and not athletic consideration. I know DYB awards up to $2K for deserving students and the amount decreases with rises in parents income. Check their websites out.

CaBB brings up a good point: "Any outside scholarships your son may get have to be cleared by his coach/school for NCAA purposes."

This was covered at one camp 2012 attended and they had a member of the compliance staff speak. Some scholarships effect the athletic dollars. Make sure you keep your coach in the loop on this.

Our sons applied for as many as they could. In addition to baseball and academic money, they received FFA scholarships, scholarships through dad's professional organization, and college department scholarships. It all adds up!

Our youngest went through a tough interview/application process for a full, merit based ride from his JUCO to a 4 year of his choice, but came in second place. We were proud of his effort, though. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

So I'm not entirely sure about all of this, but I believe that if you take outside scholarships other than those the institution may offer, it may count against your academic money. This is what I was told by a few coaches during the recruiting process but I could have heard wrong.

Example. School XYZ gives a $5000 baseball scholarship to Student-Athlete. S-A gets a merit scholarship from an outside organization, such as a corporation, worth $1000. I believe that the baseball money has now turned into $4,000 and the $1,000 from corporation is still counted = $5,000. But, the extra $1,000 that the coach now has cannot be used because the funds from an outside scholarship are "countable aid".

Hope that is right, at least from what I can recall. Someone please set me straight if it isn't!

My son has a merit scholarship from his college, an athletic scholarship, and a scholarship from the company my husband works for. They all go through the financial aid dept @ school & the athletic compliance dept for approval. There is a formula the compliance department uses to determine if student athletes can accept the scholarship.