Athlete recruitment...

phantasmagoric
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:54:47 +0000

If a recruit’s parents income is high ($120-$150K yr) they get little or
nothing from Princeton yet at Stanford can receive $100K+ over four years.



Princeton and the like only say they don’t give out scholarships to athletes - and it’s true, they don’t officially, as per the Ivy League agreement - but they reputedly are very generous with highly-prized athletes. They call it “need-based aid,” which isn’t a complete fabrication: at the elite universities with deep pockets, the line between “need-based” and “merit” aid is blurred (e.g. at most schools, getting aid if you make $120k would be merit aid, but at schools like Stanford and Harvard, whose policies dictate that people with such incomes routinely get something, it’s considered need-based aid).