Scholarships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) breaks sports into two categories: head count sports and equivalency sports. Students who are offered a scholarship to play a head count sport are typically offered a full scholarship which covers their tuition at hat university, while students who play equivalency sports might receive only a partial scholarship which covers a portion of that. At many of the smaller colleges and universities, it is common to find that the majority of the student-athletes are on partial scholarships as opposed to larger universities. Non-scholarship athletes don't receive any funds from the sport they participate in, they are simply not on an athletic scholarship. Medic (2007), examined the effects of athletic…

Jocelyn: What is the Fry Scholarship? The Fry Scholarship is a military benefits program that provides educational assistance to the surviving family members of service members who died while on active duty. A Quick Introduction Fry Scholarships were created in memory of Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry. They are connected with the Post-9/11 GI Bill, but only benefit the surviving spouses and children of service members who have died on active duty while serving their country after…

Achieving the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholarship would benefit my family tremendously since I am planning to go to the University of St. Thomas in Houston which is a private 4-year university meaning it will costly compare to public postsecondary institutions. Additionally, the scholarship provides a 5,000 dollar four-year renewable scholarship and it will be a great financial assistance towards my tuition to strive for Bachelor’s degree. I need this scholarship to help me fund for my…

are considering getting rid of athletic scholarships. Many athletes depend on these scholarships to be able to attend college and without these scholarships, furthering their education and reaching their athletic goals would be impossible. Scholarships are awarded for excelling in certain aspects of a student’s career, and athletics is a huge part of this for some students. While many think of academic standing as the main cause for awarding scholarships, high achievements in athletics should…

While people like Miles Brand, the head of the NCAA like to show donors the student athletes receive the best of both worlds, an athletic scholarship and an opportunity to play college sports, athletes say that’s far from the truth. Athletes say they have to choose to focus on their education or their sport. Often times, if an athlete places too much importance on their education, they risk losing their academic scholarship. The all or nothing commitment of sports needs to change. When it comes…

It was the beginning of the school year, and all the seniors were getting stressed about college. Many of the boys that played sports had received scholarships to go play in college, but very few girls were getting good scholarships to places they wanted to go. One of the girls had been a varsity basketball player all four years of high school and she always started on the team, but she was not getting the scholarships she deserved. She was always working hard and practicing on and off season to…

(Focus on the Faculty). The cost, on some people, is very important when choosing a college to attend. At Missouri Southern, scholarships and financial aid are offered to those who qualify. Incoming freshman are able to receive many different types of scholarships. The Presidential Scholarship ($1,750 per year) and Excellence Scholarship ($1,300 per year) are based on the student 's index score which is a combination of their ACT score, and their GPA or class rank. The Evans Scholarship…

will want to become a professional one day, but some use the scholarship to their advantage to help in school. College athletes are some of the most intense players in all of amateur and professional sports. These college players are even sometimes better than some professional player in their prime time in college. These college players play their hearts out to make it professionally, so that they can eventually get paid for doing something they love. These athletes receive many awards over…

any more. I am going to have to tighten up my money and my lifestyle, get every scholarship that I can find and pick a career that makes good money if I don 't want to be saddled with my college debt for the rest of my life. The first step that I will have to take towards financial security through college is severely limiting my spending and lifestyle. I am not going to be driving a Hummer around in college, and I have to be Alright with that. While college students are not known as the…

amateur sports, regardless of how many billions of dollars are passed around between the NCAA, its broadcast partners, and various sponsoring corporations, the players themselves still make no money. They are in a money wind machine but locked in a straight jacket. Somehow this doesn't seem right. Throughout an athlete’s life the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming a collegiate athlete. Performing at the highest level of competition in their age group, for the top universities in the…