@Calwahine, you’ll learn soon that things are not always what people say they are. Many will claim to have received a full football scholarship to Harvard or Amherst when such things don’t exist. They may have received a full scholarship, but it’s need based, or pieced together from a few sources. The father of a girl on my daughter’s team keeps telling everyone that his daughter got a ‘full ride’ for playing, and it just isn’t true. She may have enough grants and scholarships to equal full tuition/room/board, but it is not all coming from the athletic department. In fact, most of it isn’t. The school gives good merit aid, the state gives need based aid, she may have gotten a Pell grant, but it is not a 100% athletic grant, more like a 20% one which is what most of the team got. It causes hard feelings when word gets out (because this guy keeps bragging about it) and others think they didn’t have such a good deal. My own daughter was saying that one of her roommates pays about $20k while the other pays nothing. I pointed out that the one from in state also has state grants and awards that the OOS roommate isn’t eligible for. You just don’t know what other sources of funding are playing into the total.