Which school? They were looking to fill roster spots, not scholarships.
Which school? They were looking to fill roster spots, not scholarships.
Pretty sure the answer is rowing. But, you have to be tall typically. You can’t train height.
Female in any sport as they have more scholarships in each of their sports than the men do except maybe basketball.
whatsmyname wrote:
The answer is football. 85 scholarships. They have so many that some of the kids get schollies and don't even play for four years.
On the other hand, track is probably the hardest as there is lots of participation in H.S. but very limited number of college scholarships.
Football is ultra competitive. The Sacramento Bee prints a first and second team all-star list for the area and if you read the bio's only a handful receive scholarships.
For the OP, about 2% of HS athletes receive athletic scholarships so no matter how early your kid chooses a sport it's going to be a long shot.
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I'll also echo that whoever says D1 football is easy to get a scholarship is delusional. A lot of athletes in other sports are failed/average/good but not great football players. All it really takes is a practice or two to see where you're at. Every kid with a hint of athleticism wants to be in the nfl, but if size is not the issue, then they would still need exceptional speed,strength,coordination, quickness,awareness and many more components. The people who have never practiced with full equipment, at full speed are the ones who have no idea how difficult football is. I'll agree that the typical "rich white kid sports" are the way to go as far as easiest to attain a scholarship is concerned.
No. The ncaa sets a limit for each sport but each school determines how many they give. They are rwquired to give the identical number in total to women as men.
Football participation at the high school level has plummetted in the past 3 years.
Title ix expert wrote:
No. The ncaa sets a limit for each sport but each school determines how many they give. They are rwquired to give the identical number in total to women as men.
Not true! Women's soccer has more scholarships than men's soccer. Women's T&F has more scholarships than men. It's to make up for the difference in football scholarships that go to about 99.9% men. In the end the total number of scholarships given by a school are the same number for both men and women but not by individual sports. Have you ever noticed that their are more women's sports than men's sports? This is too make up for the huge difference because of football.
Bowling. Not even close. My cousin picked it up junior year and got a d1 scholarship. Her two sisters went to Naval Academy through track.
Of course the answer is football. The numbers tell the truth. Football and basketball are about the only sports where anyone gets a full scholarship regardless of what they claim. Even a $1000 academic discount means a full ride in other sports does not count as a 100% athletic scholarship against the program like it does in football and basketball.
Football. The sheer number of scholarships per school. Track is ridiculous because it has so few scholarships, and most of those go to sprinters. Do 4:10 milers get full rides anymore?
The answer is BJ's.
No. There are no real full rides. 4:10 won't get you on the team at Oregon, Stanford, or Notre Dame and it gets you 25% at any resoectable program.
If you are a girl there are so many opportunities.
Cross the board D1, D2, D3:
Women’s field hockey
Women’s lacrosse
Women’s rowing if you are tall with long arms
Non power 5:
All women’s sports
Thinking more about this; even at Power 5 universities after about five to ten schools in each sport the level falls off sharply and therefore becomes quite easy to get an athletic scholarship if you are inclined to train hard while in high school and have average athletic ability along with a high degree of motivation and consistency.
If you are a boy getting an athletic scholarship is very hard. The competition is high and doesn’t fall off that much. At Power 5 schools the competition is comprised of serious international and domestic talent. There are no easy sports for boys to get an athletic scholarship.
Whoever you are (girl or boy) good luck, work hard, keep it fun, find a good coach and consistently train and work hard at getting good grades. If you don’t do these things you won’t have much of a chance unless you have unusual athletic talent.
Volleyball
Doesn't require that much athleticism and you can play year round in climate comfort.
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How about you let your kid decide instead of being that parent
From Steve Levitt, University of Chicago economist, on Freakonomics Radio:
“..what if you’re a young athlete, or the parent of one, and your ultimate goal isn’t to become an elite professional athlete, but rather to get into an elite university? Like one of the top 10 schools in the country?
... about .4 percent of kids, so about 1 in 250 kids, will make it to one of those top 10 schools. It’s a hard goal to do it. .. you want your kid to be a fencer. Okay, now you might say that sounds crazy college fencing even exists. And the answer is there turn out to be exactly 46 schools that have fencing. But the correlation between quality of school and having a fencing team is incredibly high. For instance, among the top 10-ranked schools in the country, 9 of those 10 have a fencing team. The only exception being my own university, University of Chicago.
And each fencing team has quite a few slots to fill ... There’s three different blades — there’s epee, there’s sabre, and there’s foil — and there’s male and there’s female fencing.
And, given that relatively few kids in the U.S. are serious youth fencers …
It’s something like six or seven percent of the kids who ever try to be fencers end up being college fencers. I’m not saying they get scholarships but they’re likely to be admitted to college based on their fencing.
Again, that’s a .4 percent chance of getting into the very top schools... Fencing seems to raise that number holding everything else constant, something like 15-fold.”
Ivy wrote:
From Steve Levitt, University of Chicago economist, on Freakonomics Radio:
“..what if you’re a young athlete, or the parent of one, and your ultimate goal isn’t to become an elite professional athlete, but rather to get into an elite university? Like one of the top 10 schools in the country?
... about .4 percent of kids, so about 1 in 250 kids, will make it to one of those top 10 schools. It’s a hard goal to do it. .. you want your kid to be a fencer. Okay, now you might say that sounds crazy college fencing even exists. And the answer is there turn out to be exactly 46 schools that have fencing. But the correlation between quality of school and having a fencing team is incredibly high. For instance, among the top 10-ranked schools in the country, 9 of those 10 have a fencing team. The only exception being my own university, University of Chicago.
And each fencing team has quite a few slots to fill ... There’s three different blades — there’s epee, there’s sabre, and there’s foil — and there’s male and there’s female fencing.
And, given that relatively few kids in the U.S. are serious youth fencers …
It’s something like six or seven percent of the kids who ever try to be fencers end up being college fencers. I’m not saying they get scholarships but they’re likely to be admitted to college based on their fencing.
Again, that’s a .4 percent chance of getting into the very top schools... Fencing seems to raise that number holding everything else constant, something like 15-fold.”
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/sports-ep-3/
Not every college offers men's and women's fencing. Northwestern is women only for instance.
Fencing is very challenging.