<p>^That’s about athletics and it just stipulates that you can not offer an athletic scholarship to someone because they are athletes and that the athletics coaches can not offer money because, “only the Financial Aid Office has the authority to determine financial aid.” The key in the document is “provides financial aid to all students only on the basis of need, as determined by each institution.” The FA office decides how they want to structure the fa package, whether they want to approve a waiver, etc. I am not talking about merit scholarships. Let’s say we have student A, with $90k and assets. Instead of requesting $10k for family contribution, we request $3k from that student. Or I give an all grant package, instead of throwing a work study in the mix. Do not forget, they are the arbitrators of what demonstrated need is.</p>
<p>As an admissions counselor nicely explained it:
“Like it or not, colleges will use their limited financial aid resources as a tool to entice those students that they want the most to enroll. So, more “desirable” students will receive more favorable aid packages than other admitted students. The “most wanted” students may have their full need met while others are gapped. They also may have a better ratio of grants to loans to work-study with a much greater percentage of non-repayable grants in the mix than other students receiving aid. That means that aid packages will vary tremendously from student to student just as they will from school to school.”</p>