scholarship covers which 25% ?

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Originally posted by floridamom:
hello a newbie mom here. Can anyone please tell me if u are offered 25% from a coach does that cover 25% of the whole tuition/room and board/fees cost? or just 25% of the tuition?
thanks

Unless something has changed recently the minimum baseball scholarship that some may receive from a NCAA D1 program is 25% of (books, room & board, tuition, fees, etc...) what it cost to attend the school.

I think to be on the safe side with no surprises I would have my son ask the coach what the 25% covers. I realize the NCAA rules specify certain items for the 25% but depending on other aid that might be coming (academic, etc.) there might be bundling involved to get to the 25% so I would have my son ask via e-mail so that I would know for sure what the coach was offering.

It is 25% of the cost of being a student, which means books, room & board, tuition.

My son's D1 offer was given to him in a dollar amount, and then re-phrased to equal x% of tuition only. Additionally, academic money was offered, which is also in a dollar amount.

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My son's D1 offer was given to him in a dollar amount, and then re-phrased to equal x% of tuition only. Additionally, academic money was offered, which is also in a dollar amount.

Is the academic money over and above the baseball scholarship. Example- you get a 25% baseball scholly toward the tuition, fees, room and board. You have a 31 ACT and 4.00 GPA and you qualify for academic. Is the academic money extra over the 25%???

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Originally posted by johnj314:

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My son's D1 offer was given to him in a dollar amount, and then re-phrased to equal x% of tuition only. Additionally, academic money was offered, which is also in a dollar amount.

Is the academic money over and above the baseball scholarship. Example- you get a 25% baseball scholly toward the tuition, fees, room and board. You have a 31 ACT and 4.00 GPA and you qualify for academic. Is the academic money extra over the 25%???

Yes. The ACT score or the GPA would qualify the student academically to accept academic monies above and beyond the athletic aid without it being counted as athletic aid.

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Originally posted by justakid:
My son's D1 offer was given to him in a dollar amount, and then re-phrased to equal x% of tuition only. Additionally, academic money was offered, which is also in a dollar amount.

The school can package and portray it however it wants, but in NCAA compliance, they are dealing with the number being a % of the total cost, not just tuition. Obviously the % of tuition would be a much higher number than the total cost. Although you could be told he is getting a 70% scholarship (remember, we are dealing with used car salesmen types when we are talking to recruiters and head coaches), because they factored it as only a % of tuition, the reality may be that it is a minimum 25% scholarship when factored against the total cost.

They are just trying to sell it to the recruit AND his parents in the most favorable terms possible. "Tell me Mr. Smith, what would it take to have you drive out of here today with a scholarship for Junior. He is our #1 recruit you know."

Just to be clear, the colleges have to compute a number called Cost of Attendance (COA), which is used in things like FAFSA applications.

Baseball scholarships are not based on the COA, but rather the sum of tuition, fees, room/board, and $400 for books. This figure, referred to as an "equivalency", is generally a couple of thousand less than the COA.

Daughter received atheltic money as a total and then told she could spend it however she wanted between room/board, tuition, books,... Then, academic money came as a seperate offer not tied to the coach at all. Schools generally will have on their websites some type of breakdown of academic sholarships available and then, other info on ACT etc. requirements.

THEY ARE SEPERATE!

15.5.4.1 Minimum Equivalency Value.
An institution shall provide each counter athletically related and other countable financial aid that is equal to or greater than 25 percent of an equivalency.

15.5.4.1.1 Exception—Need-Based Athletics Aid Only. In baseball, an institution that awards athletically related financial aid based solely on demonstrated financial need, as determined for all students by the institution’s financial aid office using methodologies that conform to federal, state and written institutional guidelines (including institutional financial aid that is considered athletically related financial aid based on the intervention of athletics department staff), is not subject to the 25 percent minimum equivalency value per counter.
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What would constitute "other countable financial aid"?

Nearly all institutional financial aid is countable. It may be easier to list the aid which isn't countable: Academic aid which meets the objective thresholds is exempted, and aid which is "awarded solely on bases having no relationship to athletics ability" is also not countable. Mostly covered in 15.02.

Outside aid (see 15.2.6) is countable if athletic participation was a major factor in the award, or if a non-athletic award is limited to students at a particular institution.