Scholarships at Private schools

[hoopsinstead]

Long ago, I served on the TSSAA Financial Aid Committee.  A student applies and the student and his parents fill out a form about their financial situation.  This form is sent to Princeton and the service decides the amount of financial aid the school can award the student.  All financial aid is need based.

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Clint, I think BaldCoach presented a clearer assessment when he said it is "supposed to be" need based. The potential violations occur when aid over and above what Princeton determines the family qualifies for is given by an interested party most often to a relative who then pays the tuition difference. Sometimes the parents income is such that they don't qualify for any financial aid per Princeton so the interested party forks over the entire tuition rather than the difference between legitimate financial aid and the tuition bill. This is old news that TSSAA can't seem to bust anyone on as it requires too much heresay and that someone step up and tell the truth.

 

The more interesting question to me is the newer, supposedly legal, issues of "work study" and "loans". Would someone please explain how these could possibly be legal and consistent with the spirit of not paying someone to play?? I need a lot more details to understand how a kid could be paid half of an $8,000 tuition, as an example, for working in the library or in a concession stand when the number of hours the school is open and that they aren't in class or at practice or playing in a game dictates very few available hours to even work. I have no understanding at all of how the loans could possibly work and be an "arms length" transaction. Anybody in the know please shed some light.

[TDJ85]

I do not know all the details, but each case is submitted to the TSSAA for their approval.

[frhs2140]

i know MBA and Ensworth both give them

[rollredroll]

i know MBA and Ensworth both give them

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Yes, as does Father Ryan.

[frhs2140]

Father Ryan doesnt give them out to athletes, people who go there get in a cut in the pay if they are catholic because their church pays part of it

[Redtwin]

i know MBA and Ensworth both give them

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MBA and Ensworth both give need based aid as allocated to an applicant through an independent firm in New Jersey. No MBA athlete attends school on an athletic scholarship. 17% of the student body is on some type of this aid so I am sure that many of those 17% play at least one sport as it is required for all MBA students to be involved in a sport, play, or debate for at least 2 out of three sport seasons. There are however, no work study programs or supplemental loans given out.