So-called smaller schools will aggressively compete for your kid. Many of these schools may not be able to offer athletic scholarships. However, they can typically put together excellent financial packages for their athletes.<\/p>\n
For example, NCAA Division III<\/a> colleges are an excellent option for high school student-athletes. The NCAA mandates that these schools not offer athletic scholarships, but they may “package” scholarship offers to students. Frequently, these packages are as financially\u00a0attractive, if not more so, than those offered by DI and DII programs. Exaggeration? Not really. The following is a statement we hear every year from parents, “yes, but DIII’s don’t offer scholarships, do they?” Not so fast. They may not offer\u00a0athletic scholarships, but they do provide various other scholarships. Although not explicitly marked as athletic money, they are scholarships, and after all, money is money.<\/p>\n Here’s the thing to remember, DIII schools\u00a0are competing\u00a0against other colleges for students,\u00a0regardless of their competitors’ athletic affiliations. They\u00a0want and need bodies to fill their rosters and grow their institutions. So, they try to be as\u00a0financially competitive as\u00a0possible when putting together admission “packages” for potential students. And, for a lot of students, the scholarship amounts are enough to make you consider their school or program.<\/p>\n Think of\u00a0it this way, every college in America has\u00a0various avenues they\u00a0can extract money for incoming students. Nearly all schools have the typical academic merit scholarship, President’s scholarship, Founder’s Scholarship, etc.\u00a0 There are a ton of options for colleges and universities to pull scholarship funds from to help applicants and their parents pay for college. The only real difference\u00a0is that DIII schools can’t offer athletic scholarships, funded by the NCAA.<\/p>\n Even so, an athletic scholarship usually doesn’t have nearly as much money in it as you might assume.\u00a0 Except for a few Division I sports, most athletic scholarship are partial scholarships, not full. Because of this schools have to pull money from other avenues, just like DIII schools.<\/p>\n However, DIII schools, tend to dig a little deeper to make up for the lost athletic funds offered by DI and DII schools.\u00a0 Consequently, we often see DIII financial packages just as generous as those which come from the DI- and DII-affiliated institutions.\u00a0 Once prospects and parents\u00a0get beyond the\u00a0unfair stigma of not receiving\u00a0some athletic scholarship money, they are usually thrilled with the packages DIII’s can provide them.<\/p>\n What does all this mean to you?\u00a0 It’s simple, don’t shy away from DIII opportunities<\/a>.\u00a0 They may be very financially rewarding to you and your family. If you are academically focused, a DIII school may be a better fit for you than a DI or DII. \u00a0DIII colleges tend to have fewer time constraints than DI or DII student-athletes. So, you can still be involved in competitive college athletics, but you can have the time you may need to focus on your studies and degree.<\/p>\n So-called smaller schools will aggressively compete for your kid. Many of these schools may not be able to offer athletic scholarships. However, they can typically put together excellent financial packages for their athletes. For example, NCAA Division III colleges are an excellent option for high school student-athletes. The NCAA mandates that these schools not offer … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":14837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14838,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/14838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How DIII Financial Packages Work<\/h2>\n
You Should Seriously Consider DIII Schools If<\/h2>\n