<p>what is the difference between division I, division II, and division III? my prospective college only has division III teams, so would it be futile to play on it?</p>
<p>No…division 3 is all non-scholarship athletes, but there is still a lot of talent in D3…It really depends on how important you want sports to be…</p>
<p>Divisions are a measure of the size of the school. Division I is broken into two brackets: Division I-A, I-AA. I believe the largest Division I-A school is Ohio State and the smallest is Rice. You basically have to be recruited to play at a Division I school. Division II/III are much easier to play in but the sports usually aren’t much of a priority at these schools.</p>
<p>divisions aren’t a measure of the school size. they are a measure of how many people go out to see the sporting events. like you said, rice is only 3000 some odd students and is D-I, while Ohio is is 45000+ (i think thats about right) and is also D-I. I know school bigger than rice that are DIII like emory and UT Dallas. so its based on how many people go to see games.</p>
<p>Well I was making it less confusing for the OP. Yes, it technically is how many people that go out to the events, but usually this is correlated with school size. I believe the cutoff for Division I football is an average attendence of 17,000 people. </p>
<p>A funny anecdote: I have taken all my high school colleges at a nearby university for the past two years, and they happen to be a Division I university. Well, their average attendence this year was only like 16,000 so they needed to bring that up in order to stay in Division I for next year. Well, they had a special for the students: students get in free and up to 4 friends get in for a $1! After one game they also had an Outkast concert. Needless to say, they were trying anything possible to bring people to the game!</p>
<p>the difference in teh divisions is the number of scholarships available. As someone already said, you basically need to be recruited to play D1. If you were a really good varsity player, you might be able to make the team without being recruited, but you won’t see any playing time usually. There’s also a large difference in skill in a division. Like, one of my friends here at school walked onto the basketball team and played some. He wasn’t recruited at all. But there’s no chance of you walking on unrecruited at somewhere like UNC or Duke.</p>
<p>DII has less scholarships, and DIII has none.</p>
<p>99% of the college sporting events you see on TV are D1.</p>
<p>You can’t get any money for DIII, but some DIII teams are better than certain DI teams.</p>
<p>i dont really care about scholarships because the school is already offering me merit scholarships, but i still wanna play in college </p>
<p>uc_benz, i hope that university DID meet their quota!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if they did or not. Their quarterback was really good as he got drafted by Cleveland; so it’s not like they were really that bad. I don’t care though! May 9th is my last day, and then I’m moving on to Northwestern next year.</p>