If I hear, "I got merit aid from [need only school]!" one more time...

reesezpiecez103
Thu, 20 May 2010 23:31:28 +0000

I agree with many other posters in saying that the only time it irks me a little is when people try and use it for superiority reasons. Case in point: a girl recently transferred to my school and told me that she “was going to play lacrosse, but the team here sucks, but she’ll probably still play division 1 in college because all of her teammates on her premiere team this year have full rides to Ivies.” In fact, she told me her best friend has a full athletic scholarship to Dartmouth, and another has one to Brown. I did my best to smile and nod, but the problem here is that I am actually an athlete experienced in the college recruiting process (different sport; decided not to play D1 for a variety of reasons but know the rules of recruiting well; most of my teammates are going to D1 schools next year on some sort of scholarship).

I was doing the CC bobblehead thing (smile and nod, smile and nod) until she told me that if she had played at our inferior high school, she probably would have lost her potential full athletic scholarship to Dartmouth or Yale. I’m a little ashamed, but I just couldn’t resist…I just went, “oh, really? My premiere coach was pretty clear that the Ivies don’t offer athletic scholarships, only FA. Huh, it must have just been his mistake!” Smile, nod, walk away.

Yeah, I know it was petty…but I could tell by the look on her face that she knew perfectly well that they didn’t offer scholarships. She just assumed I didn’t know anything, and proceeded to bash our “not good enough for the Ivy League” school. Oh well…back to my daily life.