Is it true Ivy League doesn't give FA to recruited atheletes?

[afraidtoapply]

<p>Is it true Ivy League doesn't give FA to recruited atheletes, especially for tennis players?</p>

[twinmom]

<p>Harvard is need blind. The school gives financial aid to those that qualify for it. Being an athlete has nothing to do with it one way or the other.</p>

[Peytoncline]

<p>Harvard is need-blind gives FA to everyone who qualifies for it. Being an athlete will not affect whether or not you’ll receive FA.</p>

[sewhappy]

<p>Actually, Harvard is anything but need-blind. If Harvard deems you not needy, Harvard will charge you a great deal of money!</p>

[afraidtoapply]

<p>so there’s no recruited athelete at Ivies?</p>

[Pea]

<p>I think what the above posters meant to say is that Harvard only gives out financial aid based on need, they do not award athletic or merit scholarships. Being need-blind means that a family’s ability to pay doesn’t factor into their admissions decisions.</p>

<p>Does Harvard have recruited athletes? If by recruited athletes you mean athletes who are offered athletic scholarships then no Harvard does not have recruited athletes. But being a really good athlete could help you get into Harvard.</p>

[Peytoncline]

<p>@ Sewhappy - Just curious, were you being sarcastic, or are you unfamiliar with the term need-blind?</p>

[IBclass06]

<p>This is actually a topic of some dispute. Although none of the Ivies are allowed to give merit aid to athletes, some of the poorer Ivies are complaining that better aid at HYP allows them to recruit superior athletes.</p>

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Across the league, a fear has arisen in coaches and Athletic Directors that financial aid packages for recruits at Harvard, Yale and Princeton have improved so dramatically that a competitive imbalance will soon exist in the Ivy League — a violation of the Ivy League Statement of Principles.</p>

<p>With endowments that dwarf the rest of the league’s, Harvard, Yale and Princeton not only can offer more aid than other Ivies, they can offer it with fewer strings attached — such as no work study or loans — and to students in far broader income brackets. This allows them to attract recruits more effectively from other Ivies or even scholarship schools.

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[IBclass06]

<p>There was also a very interesting article in the NYT about Ivy recruiting.</p>

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Even at the nation’s elite colleges and universities, athletes have become so narrowly focused on sports that they are far removed from their classmates academically, socially and culturally, according to a study of intercollegiate athletics in the Ivy League and at 25 other highly selective colleges.</p>

<p>Such institutions do not have the same kind of problems with low graduation rates for student athletes that less selective schools have. But the study found that the recruited athletes were admitted with significantly lower grades and College Board scores and then performed more poorly than would be expected for students with those grades and test scores.

The authors said the elite colleges had felt a false sense of well-being because they did not have the same problems as schools with big-time sports programs. But, they said, recruited athletes actually represent a much larger part of their student bodies: almost 20 percent of the men in the Ivy League.</p>

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<p>The authors said that once it had been athletes mainly in football, basketball and ice hockey who lagged academically but that now it was athletes across the full range of men’s and most women’s sports.

The study said recruited athletes enjoyed a large advantage for admission. For male recruits, the odds of admission to the Ivy League colleges were more than four times greater than for comparable male applicants not on a coach’s list; the advantage for female recruits was even higher.

[Study</a> of Elite Colleges Finds Athletes Are Isolated From Classmates - The New York Times](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/us/study-of-elite-colleges-finds-athletes-are-isolated-from-classmates.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1]Study”>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/us/study-of-elite-colleges-finds-athletes-are-isolated-from-classmates.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1)</p>

[cdz512]

<p>Ivy league schools give FA to athletes but no scholarship. But there are still recruited athlete (I know personally because one of my teacher played basketball for Harvard and one of my friend is going to Harvard for basketball). However, these recruited students are also good academically.</p>

[cdz512]

<p>Just wondering, I thought you say you weren’t good at tennis afraidtoapply.</p>

[Redmondo]

<p>You’re admitted as a student, not as an athlete. Officially you’re not a recruited athlete… so just fill out your forms and they’ll treat you like everyone else with regards to aid.</p>