And yes, there are taxes everywhere. But PA’s tax system is one of the most regressive in the country. The wealthy pay 6% of their income in taxes. The poor pay almost 14%. Then you add an inheritance tax to that, and the outcomes that I see for my clients are devastating.
But I digress. Sorry to stray so far off topic, OP.
No, they do not. The NCAA ensures that all merit scholarships given to athletes are given under the same terms and requirements that are awarded to ALL students. An academic scholarship at Johns Hopkins has to be earned, and the competition is wicked. A few years ago the NCAA noticed that one school gave a much larger portion of the work study dollars to athletes than to the general student body, and the school got dinged for that. Some of the D3 hockey schools were giving too much need based FA to Canadian hockey players because of the exchange rate, and those school were cited. D3 athletes aren’t being given indirect scholarships.
Now this student may have played field hockey and lacrosse, and she could have received a lacrosse scholarship from Hopkins. Those aren’t given out lightly either.
Wondering if we are thinking of the same school. My son’s basketball team was scheduled to play a team from Michigan that got dinged with significant sanctions for providing merit money to athletes that didn’t coincide with their grades/SAT scores or anything else.