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<p>They just don't call it a athletic scholarships but they are still the same thing.</p>
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<p>The Ivies self report to each other about the financial aid their athletes recieve and the need based on the standard financial submissions ... so blatant cheating would be quite obvious. (Could a school wiggle a little around the edges? Sure, but no kid from a home making $250,000 is getting $40,000 to play football)</p>
<p>When I hear comments about the IVY league only being an athletic conference it makes me want to laugh. First, the referecence to IVY came way before the conference was set up. Second, the IVYies agree to approaches on many things beyond athletics (such as only providing need based aid - there are no merit scholarships to IVYies for any reason). Finally, while the IVY league is a sports conference it imposes much harsher restrictions than the NCAA ... no scholarships, less practice time, less recruiting, fewer games, fewer mid-week games, higher minimum academic standards for athletes, and so on ... the IVYies want to win but as a group they also want to keep athletics from overtaking the students lifes (especially compared to other DI programs)</p>