CU Boulder full ride

I doubt the staff are focused on something like that. A program like CU has a way of humbling the braggers.

And as someone else pointed out, with academic scholarships, financial aid and in state tuition, it’s possible a student is fully covered. College coaches will often help a prospect identity what of these opportunities they are eligible for during recruiting process. Some college coaches are the ones using the language “full ride” when they really mean they can help connect the student with financial supports offered by the school in addition to a partial athletic scholarship.

Strategically allocating scholarships explains why Henes at NCSU has stacked women's cross country and middle distance groups while the rest of the T&F team is neglected.

Threatening to take away scholarships or reduce the amount also explains some prominent runners entering the transfer portal.

No ACC school takes a 14:50 transfer. 1la 13:50 guy doesn't score in the B10. It isn't close to a full ride. And anybody claiming to have a full ride is admitting that they are a wealthy moron because need based aid and academic scholarships come first. Amazing how many runners don't realize how dumb they are claiming they are.

Yes, they do. I'm sure it's hard for you to stomach. Went on to race NCAA XC twice.

For HS recruits- don't fall for this.

EVERY coach says some variation of this. It is pretty much never true.

The reality is by the time you are running well you are into your junior/senior year and you are so far into your degree, you have friends, you are comfortable, the training works, they bet you won't transfer.

Yes the transfer portal made it a bit easier to actually leave. Grad transfer is another option. But be realistic and never expect your scholarship to go up.

Unless you are possibly an Olympic medalist or defending NCAA champion, no one in track and field is on a full ride.

Wrong - many international kids are also on full rides! I could at least name 10-15 people that have competed in D1 within the last 5 years who never won NCAAs, some never even made it to nationals and still were on a full ride and only had personal expenses and maybe some on food.

You can just casually walk through UCLAs locker room? Do they share facilities with the non athlete population?

Why not just turn pro if you have actual offers?

Let me rephrase - 100% athletic full rides.

On full rides but had expenses?

I didn't even have to do my own laundry at my D3 school.

So if you get an athletic scholarship that covers the full cost of in-state tuition, that only counts as a partial scholarship for NCAA purposes?

Actually, no they don't. 13:50 was 14th best in the ACC this year. You former D3 guys are so out of touch. Nonpoints equals no scholarship. 14:50 isn't getting you on a team as a transfer. You are quite silly. Tell ys your name since you are done and such a great success story.

Did he post it? If not, he isn't telling everyone. And he may be on a full ride but it is mainly jeed based or academic based. And many kids claim full rides when they get tuition covered because they view the rest as normal living expenses.

Roughly 40%

Coming out of high school it is very hard to get a full scholarship. Every place is different but is my experience.

I was a top 8 athlete in the 3200 nationally for Juniors (you are committed before your senior times so this is key). 3.6 hs GPA and over 30 ACT.

I was also a nerd and contacted every school that finished top 30 nationally or top 5 in their region for XC.

I was offered one full athletic scholarship to a school that finished outside the top ten at the XC regional, with the understanding that if I received academic aid I would be reduced athletically.

Multiple schools told me I would be receiving zero athletic funding until older athletes graduated.

I took 4 official visits in the fall, and had applied to all of those school before hand so I could meet with financial aid on the trip.

On all of my visits I received athletic percentage offers and usually got a rough idea of what my overall package looked like. I did not qualify for any need based aid from the government or schools I applied to. Obviously grades weren’t ivy/ Stanford/ notre dame/ insert large endowment school so I did not got through a private schools need based aid program.

A certain school mentioned on this thread is in my home state but were in the situation that they had a loaded team with everyone returning so offer was low. I went elsewhere

Why didn't you look at the top academic schools? The coaches would have gotten you in. Did you not want to pay $300k?