AthleticScholarships cover more than tuition
Posted on: July 17, 2019 at 23:33:42 CT
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I.e. room & board, books and for P5 program’s an amount sufficient to bring the value of the scholarship up to the school’s cost of attendance. The latter includes emiscellaneous costs of school, I.e. transportation to and from school. I believe the Dept of Education requires all schools to compute the school's cost of attendance.
P5 athletic scholarships pay the difference between the value of the other items covered by a scholarship and the full cost of attendance to the athlete in cash. Not certain how it's paid, i.e. a lump sum or monthly.
I understand the difference has been in the 6 to 10k range per school year for most P5 schools.
Therefore, the premise of your post, that free tuition would make scholarships worthless is not correc
Edited by ScottsdaleTiger at 14:44:39 on 07/18/19