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Lesson 3: Grants and scholarships- Information about athletic scholarships
- Types of grants and scholarships
- Searching for scholarships
- Student story: Searching for scholarships
- Student story: Applying for scholarships
- Student story: Relying on scholarships when facing immigration challenges
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Information about athletic scholarships
Securing an athletic scholarship for college is a competitive process, often starting in early high school. Only NCAA Division I and II schools offer these scholarships, with Division III schools prohibited. Despite millions of student athletes nationwide, only 138,000 scholarships are available annually. Excluding football and basketball, the average scholarship is around $8,700, often falling short of total college costs.
Want to join the conversation?
- What if I still don't know what I want to do with my life?(6 votes)
- Try new things and see what excites you.(6 votes)
- I Wonder if Georgia is a good school to go to for athletics.(1 vote)
- Are you asking whether The University of Georgia, or Georgia State University, or the Georgia Institute of Technology (I'm not sure which you mean) is a good place to learn to be an athlete, or is a good place for an athlete to attend, or gives good scholarships to athletes?
I'm not sure how to respond.(1 vote)
- I live in a place where I can get scholarships of up to 75% of college tuition through bilingual programs. As of right now, I am studying 9 languages (it's stressful but worth it). If I get the bilingual test passed (Don't know what it's called, but it's the one that says you officially know that language), could I do that instead of taking 4 semesters worth of classes in it? And could I get the scholarship for more than one language? If so, would I get a 100% college tuition, or only 75% of the 75% left?(1 vote)
- It is likely that your abundance of language instruction (making you multilingual, or polyglot) will not pay you above the 75% that you get for having just two languages (being bilingual). Keep up with the languages anyway. I'm one of those multilingual people, and each one that I merely dabbled in along the way had benefited me in one way or another. I commend you.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- So I see a whole lot of
families who are hoping to pay for college with
an athletic scholarship. Being recruited to play college athletics is actually a whole
process that often starts as early as the ninth or 10th grade, and requires many steps
and a lot of research. And one thing to know that I
think a lot of families miss is that only NCAA
Division I and II schools give any athletic scholarships at all. Division III schools
are actually prohibited from giving out any athletic scholarships. So it really depends on
whether your student, you as a student or your parents, feel that you are able to play at the very highest elite
levels of college sports that are represented by Division
I and Division II schools. The other thing to know is that every year there are about 7.7 million
athletes across the country who are competing for only
138,000 athletic scholarships. So very, very few students actually ever receive an athletic
scholarship at all, regardless of how good an
athlete they are in their sport. The other thing to know is that if you exclude men's football
and men's basketball, the average athletic scholarship
is only about $8700 a year, which is far, far below the
average cost of attendance at pretty much any four
year college or university.