if you receive a scholarship, and you go to summer school as well as the rest of the year, will it affect your money at the end of the four years. Does it negatively effect the 11.7 scholarships available to the team or does the 11.7 allow for year round school if an athlete chooses to attend summer classes and the team pick up the tab or percentage?
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As I understand it the scholarship does not account for taking summer classes, only the fall and spring semesters. At least that's the way it worked for my son who had received a D2 athletic scholarship. If he had opted to take summer classes the scholarship would not have covered any of the tuition/books costs. We would've had to pay out of pocket.
Summer does not count as a semester. So it does not count on the 5yr clock or have any scholarship implications whether you take one class or 18 credits. This also means it's out of pocket, but there can always be ways around it.
Wintermesters counted against spring I believe, and were a quick way to knock out 3/6 hours.
From my recent recollection of 2019 sons D1 JUCO paperwork....summer semester is included in athletic scholarship. I am encouraging him to take a class or two in the summer so that he can ease up on load spring semester.
We are only in the verbal commit stage, but my son and I understood that if he took summer classes, they would be free and this actual semesters would be at his scholarship %. We may have both misunderstood, but that's what we both heard? Does it just depend on the school and the offer?
Admittedly it's been a long time since I had to deal with this, but back when I was a college athlete (80s/90s) the scholarships only covered Fall and Spring, not summer. Wintermester was not a thing back then.
In fact in my yearly NCAA paperwork it was spelled out as $xxxx dollars for Winter 1988 semester and $xxxx dollars for Spring 1989 semester. Nothing was ever spelled out in % form. Always in a specific dollar amount applied to a specific semester.
We were never told a dollar amount because the coach said tuition has been going up yearly, so it was a percentage. Its difficult when its all verbal to know exactly how it will shake out.
stayfocused posted:From my recent recollection of 2019 sons D1 JUCO paperwork....summer semester is included in athletic scholarship. I am encouraging him to take a class or two in the summer so that he can ease up on load spring semester.
NJCAA is a totally different animal from the NCAA. Like JOES87 the NLI my son signed spelled out exactly how much per semester. Summer semester not included.
Assuming D1. If NLI reads that scholarship covers campus housing. Would that cover Summer semester as well. I understand this is probably negotiable with the individual school. Assuming housing is 25% of cost of attendance, would this count against the 11.7%? Not sure I am wording this right, but just trying to make sure that if my son attends summer and the school pays for his housing; he wont end up without scholarship money part of his senior year because of it. I am hoping he can take some summer classes, maybe lighten up the load in spring season or possibly graduate a little early. If he graduated early, he could do some grad work his 4th year?
wareagle posted:Assuming D1. If NLI reads that scholarship covers campus housing. Would that cover Summer semester as well. I understand this is probably negotiable with the individual school. Assuming housing is 25% of cost of attendance, would this count against the 11.7%? Not sure I am wording this right, but just trying to make sure that if my son attends summer and the school pays for his housing; he wont end up without scholarship money part of his senior year because of it. I am hoping he can take some summer classes, maybe lighten up the load in spring season or possibly graduate a little early. If he graduated early, he could do some grad work his 4th year?
Cant really answer the question regarding housing. As I said my paperwork always spelled out exactly what I was getting $ wise and in what semester. If I had to hazard a guess I would say that summer housing would not be covered.
Back when I was in school the way we handled the workload was to over schedule during the "off season" semester and cut way back during the in-season semester. For instance, I ran track and we were not allowed to officially start practice until October. During the fall semester I would carry 18 to 20 credits. This meant attending night classes a few days a week. During the spring season I would cut back to 12 credits. This allowed me to carry the mandatory 12 in season credits required by the NCAA as well as the mandatory 24 credits a year. In addition by carrying 18+ credits during the one semester it kept me on track for graduation.
baseballhs posted:We were never told a dollar amount because the coach said tuition has been going up yearly, so it was a percentage. Its difficult when its all verbal to know exactly how it will shake out.
If you were told a percentage....say 25%....and the school is $20k/year ($10k for housing, $10k for tuition) you'll get $5,000 off your bill....$2500 each semester. It won't say it came off of housing or tuition, it's just a $$$$ amount.....at least that's how my son's worked. He had $$$ deducted for his baseball scholly....and $$$ deducted for his academic scholly.
Buckeye 2015 posted:baseballhs posted:We were never told a dollar amount because the coach said tuition has been going up yearly, so it was a percentage. Its difficult when its all verbal to know exactly how it will shake out.
If you were told a percentage....say 25%....and the school is $20k/year ($10k for housing, $10k for tuition) you'll get $5,000 off your bill....$2500 each semester. It won't say it came off of housing or tuition, it's just a $$$$ amount.....at least that's how my son's worked. He had $$$ deducted for his baseball scholly....and $$$ deducted for his academic scholly.
yep, same for my stuff a long time ago. Nothing is left up to interpretation when it comes to signing NLI's. The exact amount and when it is applied was spelled out. Not %'s and not $5,000 for the year. It was very specific $xxx for Fall and $XXX for Spring. AFAIK it has not changed. The money is first applied to tuition and then to housing.
My son's was spelled out in the agreement that $XXX for fall and $XXX for spring. I believe that you are on your own for summer school.
Division I programs aren't permitted to provide a written offer of what will be provided in a scholarship until August 1 of the athlete's senior year. So, until then, I suggest you make notes of anything told to you by the coach about a scholarship offer to see if it matches up when the time comes for them to provide the written offer.
A scholarship for summer school will be a separate agreement, but doesn't count against the 11.7 team limit.
Different sport (swim), but a college coach told my daughter that if she needed to go to summer school because of swim, he would cover it at the same percentage. I don't know how that affected his cap (it sounds like from what others have said above that it doesn't), but he at least had the option to cover it at this school. The example in question was nursing school, in which it is nearly impossible to get in your clinicals during fall semester, so junior and senior nursing students at his college who are swimmers do their clinicals during spring and summer.
