Why are some USA collegiate sports full scholarship available and other are no scholarships allowed?
My husband and I were just talking about this yesterday. We were talking about how big schools have so many football scholarships that there aren’t many scholarships available for boys who play other sports. I would love to get my son to play baseball, but it won’t help him get into college any cheaper. However, the NCAA requires an equal amount of girl’s scholarships as boys, so many girl’s sports offer scholarships. The local high school golf coach told me that if I can get my daughter to break 100 that she will be able to get a golf scholarship to almost any school in the country… 90 for Ivy League. I was looking into it- and it is like that for many girl sports. They are required to give away girl’s scholarships. AND- apparently many female scholarships go unawarded each year at some of the biggest colleges. Apparently, though, the bulk of sports scholarship money comes from Alumni donations. (That is what I read in a VT and WVU alumni letter) I would imagine that the alumni can
So you are force your child into sports solely based on their potential for him to earn a scholarship? And I did use force, sole decision, potential, scholarship. To force a child to pick his sport is like forcing a child to pick up a violin, when he enjoys the piano. To depend on scholarships to get a child through college is totally wishful thinking. 1. There are more important issues in college than scholarship. 2. The point of going to college is NOT to get a scholarship, or Pro Team position. 3. There are 10,000 youth trying for 1000 full scholarships that might lead to one of 100 pro team positions. Your child’s future hangs on that? 4. It could well be that all colleges may pull all scholarship in recognition of situations just like you described, one in which the point of going to college is not a good education, but the scholarship. The colleges acknowledge that the push by alumni associations to have the “winning” teams has lead to this sad state of affairs. That throwing a b
