Athletic scholarship or need based financial aid, or both?

chris85
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:59:04 +0000

Thanks Varska! I appreciate your input. What if the FA office comes back and says we don’t get a reduction in EFC? I’m trying to figure out how badly they want my daughter, who just got a new Trails Cut this morning at US Nationals. She’s very high on the Collegeswimming.com recruiting web site and we’ve been told that she’s a “top recruit” by several sets of parents whose kids have gone through this process.

I read in one of those recruiting books that “you always want as much athletic aid as possible” as it doesn’t fluctuate with income changes from the parents. If that’s the case, why not supplement the athletic grant with the FA? Give us your offer up front so to speak…

Like I said before, we are FA candidates this year, but who knows going forward? Without trying to sound arrogant, “how badly do you want her?”. This scholarship stuff wasn’t an issue for us a couple of months ago as she wanted to go to an Ivy league school and we knew where we stood exactly. Now we’ve got this complicated situation and we’re supposed to negotiate…

Any thoughts anyone?