<p>I'm curious.....if a state school program has, for example 10 full scholarships to offer, I assume when the NCAA says allowed to give up to X number, that would be an amount equal to 10 student athetes total tuition and room/board.
So if a recruit is in-state for that school and in-state tution is, for example, half of full tuition, is the school considered to be paying less than one full scholarship and therefore has more scholarhip money to spend on other recruits?</p>
<p>I can’t answer your question directly, but when we asked if it would be possible to get OOS tuition waived so that our son would be paying in-state rates, we were told no, because that would count against their scholarship limit (they had offered to pay for his books only).</p>
<p>As I understand it, in an equivalency sport you would take the student’s total COA and divide that by the amount of scholarship $ they’re getting to determine their percentage.
So if one athlete has an out-of-state COA of 50K and another has an in-state COA of 25K, and each athlete gets 25K in athletic scholarship money, you have given 1.5 scholarships in the eyes of the NCAA.</p>
<p>A full ride for a state school is the cost of tuition, board, food and books for in state… If a recruit comes from out of state the school would have to use more than one full ride to pay for a scholarship for that athlete. At least that is how it is at the D1 state school my son attends.</p>
<p>The school has a prorated dollar amount to spend - equivalent to x number of scholarships at the “average” cost of attendance for the athletes on the team. So, using your example, the “cost” of 10 scholarships does not equal the in state tuition x 10 OR the out of state tuition x 10. That cost is determined by the school’s athletic department and still labeled “10” scholarships.</p>
<p>^Exactly - NCAA compliance and athletic department budgets are two entirely different animals.</p>