your post just isn't true
by DavidAddison (2018-06-05 13:07:36)
Edited on 2018-06-05 13:13:07

In reply to: It doesn't really cost $70K per scholarship per year  posted by Kayo

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ND sets a number of undergraduate students it wants (and has room for). Any scholarship athlete taking the spot of a regular student is an opportunity cost. Namely, that another student would be paying $70,000 a year for that spot. If you add 18 more available spots, none of that changes.

(The fact that most students get financial aid is irrelevant entirely because those funds come from a completely different source and are discretionary...ND can give or not give need-based scholarships as it sees fit).

So scholarship "slots" actually DO cost the university $70k per year in tuition, room & board it would've had from someone else had that athletic scholarship not existed.

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