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Message: [QUOTE="Bonpland, post: 3144510, member: 6000"] From my experience your explanation of the Ivy financial support system is quite accurate. My daughter played at an Ivy and we could not pay the full cost of that kind of education and we were only asked to pay what we could afford. The rest was drawn from a variety of funds and it continued for the full four years. As you point out however her teammate, an All-Ivy performer from a very comfortable California family, paid all or close to all of their daughter's college expenses. Her father told me so during warm-ups at one of their games. It's not just the Ivies that employ this practice. My second daughter attended a "Little Ivy" here in the northeast and received similar treatment. She played four years and her financial aid was never tied to her athletic involvements. I still recommend to high school students to "aim high" if they have the grades because the more elite schools have money to help support a worthy student's college experience. It . certainly made a difference for us. Without that generous support we would not have been able to consider those kind of academic institutions. That said it was a constant sideline rumor at the games that Harvard and Princeton did more than help only the athletes who demonstrated true financial need in order to entice top talent into their locker rooms.. Maybe that was true or maybe it was just the kind of rationalization that provided comfort to the parents of the kids who had just been beaten by one or the other of those two traditional Ivy powers.. [/QUOTE]

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