Expenditure per student? Alumni giving? Ways to determine ROI

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@Mwfan1921 Based on this info (why would a coach from a need blind D3 school with no merit aid need to know if we were applying for aid?)

I think the answer to that is in ucb’s post:

when deciding at the policy level what characteristics to increase or decrease importance to, or what processes to require applicants to do for the next admissions class, the impact on the FA need of the class is estimated and accounted for in decisions.

At NESCACs recruited athletes are much more often full pay than the rest of the class (at Amherst 31% of non-athletes are low income vs 4% for athletes and 23% overall student body). I suspect part of the resistance to decreasing coach spots for them with admissions is because of that economic impact, so one could argue that (most) athletes are expected to be full pay in terms of their economic value to the college.