<p>How hard is it to get a tennis scholarship to Brown? or any other Ivy League in general? Please let me know.</p>
<p>ivy league schools don't technically give athletic scholarships whatsoever
....but i think there's some iffy stuff going on. i know an awful lot of athletes with "full need"</p>
<p>try stanford, duke, notre dame, uc's, michigan, w madison, unc, for sports scholarships and good educations.</p>
<p>hey where in oregon are you from?</p>
<p>i'm from eugene. ( where the university of oregon is). and alright. are all those schools above D1 or what? I am thinking that D1 would be a streach for me, but D2 or D3 or would pretty relaxed.</p>
<p>honey brown is d1</p>
<p>i'm from corvallis</p>
<p>D1/D2/D3 doesn't really matter for tennis in my experience. A lot of the best tennis players play D3.</p>
<p>You have to get recruited or play tournaments. I know of someone who is playing for a top d1 tennis team now who got rejected from brown even with their tennis skills + academics. Talk to the coach?</p>
<p>I hope this is a joke.
By just asking the question you have no chance of getting a tennis scholarship.
Brown is D1, they are normally ranked. I've been recruited for 09. To get a scholarship to any of the Ivy league schools you need to be atleast top 100 in the us. And that in itself isnt much of an accomplishment so you cant even count on your chances with that rank. Other than that your a walk on after being academically accepted and your used to liek buffer teh team's gpa although you dont get to play. And even if yoru a walk on your need to be a deece player. Im from canada and one of the top players in the country, represented my country and train 3-4 hours a day. I plan on trying to play some pro tennis. Its a ranked d1 school, so there like top 75 teams in the nation playing in the second highest level of tennis in the world aside from pro's. PAHreen, that statement isnt nearly true. There are some top european players, id say 5-10 max, who have violated ncaa regulations by playing pro tour and accepting too much prize money so there inelligible to play d1, but thats that. D2 and D3 tennis is mainly a joke. Even the majority of D1 schools are a joke, sometimes it makes more sense for a highly competetive player who say cant get into a good academic school on scholarship, adn instead of sacrificing their education to go to a Sacred Heart, they simply give up on the sport and apply to their state school as a student. If you simply do not know if you are good enough to play ncaa, then frankly, your not good enough. I dont mean to be offensive, but its something that you've been planning on since before your freshmen years.</p>
<p>Tennis, you can't get a scholarship to Brown, you can only get need-based financial aid...unless you are talking about one of the slightly sketchy evaluations of the EFC of some athletes.</p>
<p>Tennis, I don't seek to start an argument at all, but it is unfair to refer to D2 and D3 teams as a 'joke.' Everything is relative, especially in the college process. You know that tennis is, essentially, an individual sport (never-mind doubles). As a result, there may very well be individuals who are absolute stand-out tennis players who choose to go to a D3 small liberal arts college for a variety of reasons. Deciding on a college is all about balancing your desires, and as the OP indicates, (s)he believes D1 would be a reach. Perhaps this reach is unrelated to tennis skill, but rather lifestyle. If you're a D1 athlete, you're likely going to be traveling a lot and may be held back from participating in normal campus life and succeeding in the classroom to the fullest potential. Maybe the OP does not want to be a Florida Gator. Maybe as a D2 or D3 athlete the OP would enjoy the college experience along with the opportunity to continue playing tennis. Maybe the OP is focused on more than a professional tennis career.</p>
<p>Claysoul- My bad, I meant FA, but it is kinda sketchy, but all in all its still FA. I didnt proof read.</p>
<p>MissFiskeGuide- Im not going to lie, its sounds like a viable option. But it doesnt happen, D3's dont give out scholarships only financial aid, and not good financial aid at that. Therefore most players dont even bother looking there. As well, D3' schools dont have much pull with admissions. The typicall athlete isnt bright. They have a better shot with a d1 coach pulling with admissions than a d3, thats because sports mean nothing to a d3 school. Which is why their d3... I beleive though OP is posting this, thinking that playing highschool tennis is going to be enough of a backdoor to sneak into the school (if im wrong, Im sorry op). Also D2 schools dont have much academic recognition, so it is the general perception that the kids care more about messing around with lower level tennis than there academics. D3 schools are very respectable like JH or MIT, but theres not much money to go around and admissions norms basically crush your statement (sorry). It is because of this D2 and D3 tennis is a joke, ASIDE from a few exceptions. I have heard stories of south americans playing d2 tennis because their academics were not high enough to get into any d1 schools, and their tennis being extremly respectable. All in all, is it a possiblity? yes. Likely? no.</p>
<p>Pomona, an incredibly respected institution and a DIII school, had the highest per-undergrad endowment in the country (last time I checked). </p>
<p>AWS give excellent financial aid. </p>
<p>Vassar gave me a way better package than Brown did (granted there I was a recruited athlete -- they recruit for rugby, Brown doesn't). </p>
<p>I had a friend, who, according to his best friend, really only got into Pomona "because of football"</p>
<p>There are plenty of brilliant athletes. We have national select players who do very well at a very difficult school on my team. We have a player who is getting a dual degree in 4 years, which usually takes 5. We have Royce Fellows, and all sorts of stuff. </p>
<p>What about Zach Deossi, who went to Brown, and now plays for the Giants?</p>
<p>Or Nick Harrington, who chose between a shot at pro football and Harvard Law?</p>
<p>I know you have good intentions, but a lot of your suppositions are really just wrong.</p>
<p>Yea but d3's dont have academic pull, and there financial aid offers arent much comparable to actual sports scholarships. </p>
<p>I didnt say anything bad about brown... I think you missed the point. Ivy Leagues' are D1, there huge. James Blake went to Harvard, theres a guywho graduated Brown and hes top 100 doubles atp now. I dont know why you gave me that list of kids. In GENERAL though, d3 schools dont have as much pull with admissions as d1 schools; and with no sports scholarships. High status athletes dont really have any motivation to get to a d3 school, or even the oppertunity for it make sense for them to go there. </p>
<p>Edit** Not as much money to go around; because the schools are smaller normally. Like private colleges like Pomona which I had never even heard about.</p>
<p>If you've never heard of Pomona you know very little about top colleges, it's one of the best in the country. I believe it's number 5. </p>
<p>There's plenty of money to go around because there are less students. </p>
<p>I'm not defending Brown, I'm using my own experience at Brown to refute the claim that great athletes often aren't bright. That's just not true. </p>
<p>Ivy's don't offer academic scholarships either...so....</p>
<p>I'd say the only top caliber DI schools to offer scholarships would probably be Notre Dame, Stanford, UC's, Michigan, Wisconsin, Duke, and a few others. If you want great academics you probably won't be getting a "sports" scholarship. And perhaps that's what draws top athletes to LAC's and other DIII schools, the academics and intimate atmosphere.</p>