twoinanddone,
Our family would actually completely agree that merit aid or state aid should offset any FA from the school.
Again, the concern is not the FA award or how it will be broken down or even if our daughter isn’t given any FA at all.
The concern is a 17 year old being compelled to disclose in a formal signed statement the details of all of the recruitment she has received, including dates, times, type of contact on a form that she was told comes from FA office, but seems now from your post is “the coach can ask anything they want ?”
Hence the no school letter head and the lack of a name/ signature from the FA office?
17 year olds are still kids, why scare them by making them worry filling out this form they burn bridges with every coach recruiting them OR with, now that you seem to nod to, the coach recruiting them.
Why not just ask a kid: hey, are we your first choice ? Any other offers we can match ?
That seems more cordial