Supply EFC to receive athletic offer?

On quite a few occasions when my son was being recruited, he was asked about his EFC from different schools. In my experience then, it appears common for coaches to want to know what your EFC is and they try to look at the whole picture to find how to fit their prospects into their program. More is involved than just the available athletic scholarships for the whole team.

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FWIW....Typically we were directed to the Financial Aid office for those discussions, and an athletic liaison was responsible for getting that information to the coach. The coaches spoke in percentages to us but never specifically about EFCs.

College atheltic recruiting and financial aid can be complex (and confusing) depending on many situations. If I was a college coach, I would speak in percentages too because it is simple to understand.

Pardon my ignorance. What is EFC?

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Originally posted by Proud Dad 24:
Pardon my ignorance. What is EFC?

When filling out your fafsa you will get a Dollar amount that the government considers "Expected Family Contribution"
This is the amount of money the goverment says you can afford to pay out of pocket per year of college.

Depending on your financial situation the school may try to meet this or not.

Many schools allocate their scholarships not purely based on baseball capabilities, but also on the player's need. Conversely, many schools, particularly the very expensive ones, will take a kid whose family is stinkin' rich and ask that they pay their own way so that the 11.7 (using the D-1 number, though you said NAIA in your case) can be put to use getting other players who have to have the money.

I am wary of this approach because a walk-on is always going to the most vulnerable to being cut from the team if the coaches run into a numbers crunch.

On the more positive side, many coaches are also going to try to see how much they can package for you in non-baseball aid, so that they can both meet your needs and also preserve as much of their 11.7 for other recruits as well. I have heard of coaches saying, we'll make sure you get XX% of total aid, whatever we can't get you from other sources will be met from our baseball budget, but help us to get as much as we can from other sources. For schools that have a lot of other sources of funds available, this is a common sense approach that helps maximize recruiting within the financial and rules limitations.