Re: University of Jamestown to the Great Plains Athletic Conference
Originally Posted by
kab1one
Can D3 offer athletic scholarships or only academic? UJ as an NAIA can do both. Whereas Concordia MN only gives academic. Concordia dropped tuition $15k, but also cut back on financial aid/scholarships, so at the end of the day, the cost was the same. Whereas UJ with the lower cost starting point than Concordia, St. Thomas, St. Johns, (Augustana and U Sioux Falls were about same starting point 32K as UJ). The scholarship UJ offers makes the starting point similar to NDSU. .
So in the case the NAIA school has an advantage of the D3 and to some extent the D2 schools.
Define "athletic" and "academic." I think I've got these guys buckled down. Private schools all have intimidating sticker prices. But if you fit something they want, they drive the price down through all sorts of scholarships.
My cousin ran at an Ivy. She's smart but not Ivy-smart, she got her price down to about NDSU level. Even after she quit track, still got to keep all of her scholarships because they weren't "athletic", they were "we think you'll do fine here and we'll get the price to a reasonable amount" scholarships.
Another cousin went to Harvard. Wicked smahht. Also paid a similar total as the athlete I believe. What was the one thing they had in common? Similar socioecomics.
One fit in for sports and they knew she'd be fine academically. The other fit in for academics and they knew needed to get the price to a good spot so that going there wouldn't be cost-prohibitive.
For law school, I go to a small private school out east. They offered me some silly 2/3 tuition scholarship for "my achievements in academics" or something silly like that. Well, I had a trash GPA (2.7ish) at NDSU. Granted I did very well on the LSAT but roughly only a point or two above median for my class.
This tells me private schools have high sticker prices that nearly nobody is paying. I'm sure some do pay it. I have some exceptionally wealthy classmates who didn't get into the elite law schools. The types who grew up going to elementary schools that cost 40-50K/year. I suspect those are the only people (adjust by region of country) paying sticker.
So this makes me think they look at a middle class kid and say "let's get the price to where the parents will not be scared shitless" and for the wealthy ones, maybe not so much. This is 100% a theory, and every private school is gonna tinker a bit, but I think it holds water.
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