Scholarship question

Blue10,

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They can offer both athletic and academic financial aid to the recruit. They will package the overall aid as the offer.

Blue10- quite often schools will package the athletic aid with the academic aid so they can offer the recruit a more attractive package. The better student your son is the more academic money they will be offered. If the student has either a 3.5 GPA or a 1200 (2 part) SAT, or is top 10% of his class, then the academic money he is offered is not counted against the athletic money.

Thank you for your replies; I am learning so much on this website!

Question: Will they combine into an initial offer or could you get the Academic offer prior tot he athletic being offerred?

In our experience, there is an academic/athletic liason officer who coordinates these activities between departments.

Our experience was the complete offer that included every applicable source of scholarship dollars (baseball, academic, etc.) was presented by the coach at the time the offer was made. My son never spoke to anyone other than the coach that recruited him.

Sorry, misunderstood. Yes, academic/athletic lisaon is the intermediary between the depts. The recruiting coach is the one who finally presents the offer to the athlete as floridafan describes.

Based on what I've gathered so far, it will depend on the school. Several have said exactly what others here have posted regarding a combo. However I know of at least one high academic D1 that said they do not offer both, and you must either take one or the other. Since the most they typically give a top recruit is 25% athletic, they said most of their scholarship players go the academic route because there is more money available.

Yes, as Vector decribes it depends on the school. A high academic school that fenwaysouth jr was considering last year would not allow for co-mingling of athletic and academic scholarships. That is just the way they did things. Also, if you wanted to pursue the academic scholarship route (at this school) you HAD to apply Early Decision to be considered. So the timing can play a huge factor in all of this.

IMHO it is worth looking into as it can be a 4 year academic scholarship vs a 1 year renewable athletic scholarship.

Academic scholarships have to be renewed every year as well---the student has to mainatin a certain minimum GPA

Another followup question related to $$ (I just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly): if a player qualifies for need-based financial aid of more than 25%, and he receives a 25% baseball scholarship offer, the baseball scholarship would just negate/replace the need-based aid so the family would be paying the same as if he had never received the baseball offer, right?

Basically yes, an athletic grant reduces a players need.

The two were decoupled in my son's experience. He received a baseball offer and a "go see so and so" about how you get academic aid.

The two ended up being about equal and very nice...

The academic portion has to be such that any non-athlete with the same academic credentials would have qualified for the award. Otherwise, it must count against the team's athletic scholarship limit.

Therefore, the better the school academically, the higher the standard for the athlete to qualify for academic aid. This tends to lead to a smaller proportion of players who qualify for academic aid as a supplement to their athletic scholarship.

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Originally posted by 3FingeredGlove:
Basically yes, an athletic grant reduces a players need.

Thanks all-
So I'm assuming kids who would qualify for partial need-based financial aid would be less likely to receive athletic scholarship offers, since that 25% (or whatever percent) would just be a "throwaway" since the amount offered to the kids would not change much if at all, since the baseball $ would just be replacing the financial aid dept's money.