<p>I have a friend who swears that he was accepted into Harvard with a full scholarship this past week. He is a basketball player (6'8) and has decent potential to be really good. But would Harvard give him a full scholarship even though he has a 1750 SAT and B/B+ grades? Im happy for him, but very suspicious.....</p>
<p>Harvard does not offer merit-based scholarships of any kind, not athletic or academic. All aid they issue is need-blind, so if is going to receive free tuition is family must have an income of under $60,000/per annum.</p>
<p>His dad is a doctor making $500,000plus a year. So there is no way he got money?</p>
<p>Those scores would pretty much guarantee rejection. Basketball alon wouldn't get him in.</p>
<p>Your friend is a liar.</p>
<p>none of the ivies give any sort of merit scholarship. people meet my son and say, "you're the one that got a football scholarship to ______ aren't you" and he just replies "yes, i play football at ________" it's not worth explaining that they don't give athletic scholarships. </p>
<p>most kids want to say they received a scholarship because it seems to indicate that they were recruited. a few articles were written about my son when he signed a "commitment" letter and sometimes they said things like "he will not be receiving a scholarship" and that would bother me because it implied he wasn't recruited, he was just "walking on" when in fact, they don't give scholarships to anyone!</p>
<p>your friend should just say he's been recruited and accepted--anyone that knows anything about ivy sports will know he's telling a tale if he says he got a full ride!</p>