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Ivy League

montanatarheel

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Anyone know how Ivy teams build their rosters? Do they not have a scholarship limit? According to VC every team has over 13 scholarship players, topping out with Penn at TWENTY FOUR! I am confused but to lazy to research it right now.
 
If you look at verbalcommits page about Penn it says "note: Pennsylvania does not offer athletic scholarships and is therefore exempt from scholarship limits"....http://www.verbalcommits.com/schools/pennsylvania....directly under where it says
Conference: Ivy
Average Stars:2.198
Official Roster:PENNATHLETICS
Note: Pennsylvania does not offer sthletic scholarships and is therefore exempt from
scholarship limits
 
No athletic scholarships in the Ivy league in any sport. The official Ivy league conference charter when the official league was founded in the mid-50's was built around no scholarships.

The Ivies have very good need-based scholarships. Harvard, Princeton and Yale have the best ones. These are a huge help for families making something like $100,000 or less on a both parent basis. Despite those need-based scholarships probably being $60,000 or so, the parents and kid still need to come up with a decent amount of money.

Ivy need-based scholarships used to be exactly the same, in that the parent contribution was the same, but an antitrust case brought by the federal government 25 or more years ago, caused the Ivies, MIT and a few similar schools to not "conspire" to provide the same level of support. While the schools and league still have rules, there is a small amount of flexibility in what is offered to all students, including athletes.
 
If a kid wants to go to an Ivey league school & his family makes too much to get any or little financial aid the cost can be huge. If the family has a lot of money it may not be too much of a burden. For middle to a little higher income levels it can be pretty tough. For those kids & their families to take on such a burden they really should value the Ivey degree much more than the sports side of it. This is one good reason my son didn't chose to go to Dartmouth who was recruiting him pretty strongly. UM ended up being an awesome choice for him.


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