Can Varsity Edge guarantee a high school athlete receives athletic scholarship money?
No, our service is based on working with families on an individual basis with the goal of trying to find the college that fits a student-athletes academic qualifications, athletic talents, financial needs, and social desires. The closer a given recruit comes to finding a college athletic program that has a need for his or her talents, the better the chance that recruit has of possibly receiving some athletic-based aid and even academic-based aid. Athletic scholarships are only awarded at the NCAA D1 and D2 level (as well as NAIA and Junior College) and that represents over 200,000 NCAA athletes. Over 100,000 of those athletes receive no athletic scholarship money (50%) to play their sport and they play for the love of the game. In order to receive an athletic scholarship at least 4 things need to happen. 1 – you need a high degree of skill in your sport, 2 – you need to find a college program that has a need for your skills, 3 – you need to find a way to display your skills to that col