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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 3143483, member: 6620"] Congratulations to your daughter and you. A Penn degree is a great thing to attain and have...I'm glad it worked it our for her. When was that? However, several friends and colleagues and I have personal and semi-professional experiences at a number of Ivy League schools where superior athletes with excellent grades were given some form of financial aid (most recently, grants). Back in the day, this primarily had a lot to do with financial situations of the family -- and with non repayable grants at many schools, even more so today -- but that situation has loosened up a lot at certain schools, as well (given how expensive the Ivies are now, most families would be really inconvenienced paying tuition!).BTW, I've got folks on another board whose family members were offered/used these grants. Having good sports teams has become a form of immediate branding for a lot of schools primarily known as academic power houses. In particular, look at D3 programs such as Washington University of St. Louis, Emory, virtually all of the NESCAC colleges even MIT. Back in the day, virtually anyone could play on a lot of their teams. Now, they're regularly competing for and winning national championships. [/QUOTE]