Does Boarding Schools provide academic scholarship or athletic scholarship?

sunnyschool
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:19:43 +0000

Some schools DO give athletic scholarships regarless of how they are classified. For example, at the Mercersburg Open House, I was on tour with a mom whose son was being recruited for Basketball. She told me he was a C student at a public HS in the region, but a basketball superstar. The Mercersburg coach would come watch his games (on his own initiative) and specifically asked him to come to Open House and apply for 11th.

Soooo, I would say that is probably “athletic recruiting” categorized as something else (ie., need-based FA as I’m not sure merit applied here). Both Mercersburg and Peddie do that for swimming, also. I know of swimmers getting letters from Peddie.