<p>My daughter is a rower, she'd like to attend a state school in a state other than the state we live in. if she is recruited by a D1 school, will it/can it offer her in- state tuition? We're not expecting any scholarship money but the only way she would attend another state's public college is if the tuition id discounted.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any sort of information you have on the matter.</p>
<p>I would assume she would have to receive an athletic scholarship bringing the tuition down to in-state.</p>
<p>I asked my question wrong. </p>
<p>Coaches are looking at her profile and a few have emailed inviting her to attend a clinic and we’ve gotten mailings, so I’m 100% sure she can row in college. What I don’t know is, with a Women’s sport like rowing do state schools discount tuition to attract athletes? She’s looking at D 1 but not the biggies - UVA, Ivies, etc. and she’s relatively new to the sport so she’s not a superstar, but she’s a strong athlete, with a 3.0 GPA and an SAT score in the 1700s. </p>
<p>Thanks for any insight you might have.</p>
<p>In general state schools do not discount tuition to attract athletes. I would have your D ask the coach about this.</p>
<p>As editor said - in order to bring out-of-state tuition down to in-state levels, that would mean receiving a partial scholarship. For example if OOS Cost of Attendance is 40K and In-State COA is 20K, you would need a 50% scholarship to make that happen.</p>
<p>The NCAA limits the number of scholarships (20 for fully funded D1 womens rowing, I think) and would not allow a school to give a tuition discount to an athlete without impacting their available scholarships.</p>
<p>Does your state have a WUE or WICHE type of cooperative OOS tuition break? If you live in the west, you may already know about this; if you’re somewhere else, does this kind of agreement exist in other states? Basically it results in a 150% charge for tuition: if in state in a cooperating state school is $8000, we would pay $12000. Some programs require qualifying GPA/scores. Others are wide open.</p>
<p>Many D1 state universities do have some type of OOS academic scholarships that come close to getting the tuition down to in state levels that they use to attract OOS students. They are for ALL students not just athletes. In general, the school web sites are pretty clear in terms of possible out of state award levels. </p>
<p>Based on my S experience you need to get your application in for regular decision at the beginning of the application period to maximize your chance at academic money. (And there are TONS of other discussions on the school specific sites on this forum about this) Hopefully your daughter is a junior, since most of the schools we looked at had scholarship cut offs in Dec.</p>
<p>My S is also an athlete looking to get academic money at a solid sports school to make it affordable, since we are not expecting athletic money. He has already heard back from two D1 schools that he has applied to. In both cases he has been awarded academic money based on his grades/test scores. The only way they could have known he was an athlete was because it was mentioned in the extracurricular section on the application; the coach did not do anything on his behalf. At one of the schools, he was actually granted an award that is normally given to kids in neighboring states. His grades/scores met the requirements for that award, but we live across the country, so there can be some flexibility. </p>
<p>What you are trying to do is definitely possible, it will just take some investigating to identify which schools are generous to OOS students and which of them have a good rowing program and get the applications in early.</p>
<p>^^I agree! My D received very generous academic scholarships from The Ohio State University and The Univesity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Clemson University also awards merit $$ to OOS.) We are OOS. She did not choose either and will be running XC and track for another Big 10 (hope to hear from them soon regarding merit $$), but if you do your research you should find what you’re looking for.</p>
<p>If your D is a very competitive rower, she may well get partial or full athletic scholarship at a larger state school. But merit aid, added to even a small percentage of athletic scholarship, may make up the difference. Some state schools in the Midwest (I don’t know about elsewhere) seem to use the ACT score rather than SAT as a guide for automatic awards of $3k, $5k, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your feedback. </p>
<p>My D is a junior now, so it will be 12+ months before I know how this shakes out, but I will post on CC how this all shakes out. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of your student athletes, let’s hope they all land well.</p>
<p>My daughter got a “out of state tuition wavier” from her school…actually makes sending her 1500 miles away VERY, VERY, affordable. I was nervous about the offer…but carefully researched. I’m sure not every out of state person gets this offer…but she was heavily recruited by this coach.</p>
<p>Txgym1, was the tuition waiver based on academics and open to all students? If so, this is a great example of why it is critical for athletes to keep their grades up. My DD received a combined athletic/academic package at her school that was far greater than she could have received at any school just for sports.</p>
<p>If this waiver is just for athletes, however, it has to count for the NCAA equivalency limit.</p>
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<p>Twenty full for D II also.</p>
<p>Does any one know where to find a list of the state schools that are generous with OOS students who are strong in both athletics and academics? </p>
<p>We’re also wondering if any Canadian schools will bring down their tuition for international student athletes?</p>
<p>I never found an already compiled list of what schools were looking to attract OOS. We started with the NCAA list of all the schools that had my S sport and then researched the school both on their website and then in the other college confidential “by school” posts. </p>
<p>The ones that are looking to attract OOS students usually had specific scholarships for non-residents that were tiered to offer more dollars to the better students.</p>