D3 Athletic for Merit Scholarship?

twoinanddone
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:28:28 +0000

IMO based on what you have posted, I think your best route is to ask the coaches for support for the RD rounds, telling them you can’t attend unless she gets a merit award but you know those are hard to come by and you can’t risk ED. If they say no I still think you are in a better position than if you ED and then turn it down.

She’ll have a lot of good academic options with NMF or the Texas options, but may have to adjust the athletic options. It really sounds like you/she will be unhappy having to pay full costs, especially knowing there were other options. Really, getting a scholarship feels pretty good, maybe as good as getting into a Top 20 school. All schools have their benefits and problems. Look at MIT, UPenn, Harvard right now - not all that rosy. At other times things at those schools are great.