<p>ok i think i understand better now. i think the “gapinit” examples helped alot. thanks for all the info. i will stick more to grades and less to sports on my college applications.</p>
<p>I am new to this site, and I am hoping someone here will know the answer to my question. </p>
<p>My daughter is a high school sophomore, and a very good year round soccer player. She is in the beginning stages of her college decision, and wishes to play soccer in college.</p>
<p>After attending many of the big tournaments around the country this year- Vegas, Disney, Raleigh, she has received a stack of letters from a variety of schools. The D1 schools she has received letters from, all state the same basic info- we saw you play at ________; NCAA rules only allow us to ask you to our camp and fill out an athlete recruit form; etc… Harvard is one of those schools she has heard from.</p>
<p>My question is this- After filling out the FAFSA, our EFC is such that we would receive zero financial help from most colleges, including Harvard. Is is true that all Ivy League schools, though they are D1, do not give out athletic money to those who do not “need it”? </p>
<p>It is a curious thing about FAFSA, what its idea of a family being able to contribute, and the family in questions idea, are quite different.</p>
<p>My daughter would like to look into Harvard by attending camp, but I’m thinking it would be silly because we couldn’t afford for her to go there.</p>
<p>By the way her ACT is a 34 as a sophomore (only taken it 1 time) and she has an unweighted GPA of 4.0.</p>