<p>There are very few scholarships, and even if her saber results improve in the next two years, it’s still very competitive for those scholarships. @sherpa has good advice. Her best bet is to focus on schools that meet full financial need. Those schools are some of the most selective, so she needs to keep her grades as high as possible.</p>
<p>There are many wealthier schools that might make a decent starting point, providing she has the GPA, SAT, course rigour, etc. In Division 1: Boston College, Brown, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Notre Dame, U Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Yale. In Division 3: Brandeis, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Tufts, Vassar, Wellesley. </p>
<p>You would have to do more research into which of these schools are likely to provide the required financial aid (money for international students is tight). And as sherpa said, most of these schools won’t “recruit”, per se, but it doesn’t hurt to contact them. Your D can still get admitted with good finaid, without being recruited, but her grades have to be excellent.</p>
<p>She would require an athletic scholarship at other schools like Ohio State, Penn State.</p>
<p>@schoolhouse has good advice too. There are eastern European coaches at a few of these wealthier schools. A quick check reveals… Brown & Princeton: Hungarian; Stanford: Ukrainian; Notre Dame: Georgian; MIT: Polish. So when you decide to initiate contact, one of these eastern European coaches (if still there) might be a bit more interested in her ROU background. Also, the Tufts University coach, Ariana Klinkov, is a former world top 30 fencer (saber) and a very highly rated referee. I believe she’s American. She might be a good contact for you.</p>