Well, recently I have gotten a letter saying I owed so much money for school. They only gave my a week notices. Then they trying saying that they sent home other payments, and I'm not doing anything about it. I have gotten two payment from finicial aid, and the first one they told me not to worry about it. No offense to all you athletes, but I just don't understand how somebody who can play a sport like basketball, football, soccer, etc can get a full-time scholarships. If they don't get a full-time scholarships; it's close to it even when they don't care about school at all. Then there are those people out there who try and want to achieve in school, and get zippola amount of money. The people who achieve in class, and do their work on time, and study get maybe a few grants and loans. People wonder why more and more students are dropping out of school, because they can't afford it. Everyone isn't an athlete. I don't think a person should get a full-time scholarship just because he/she plays a sport.
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I agree. I think that there are too many athletes who get full or close to full rides to college who don't care at all about education. They get a free ride and many professors go easy on them while students who want to learn, want to be in class, and want to get a complete education can't afford it because they don't do athletics.
I want to go to school, and put my entire heart into school, but i can't afford it. My sister can afford school easier than I can, but she says that sometimes she is only in it for cheer leading.
I am not trying to knock athletics, but I think that often they have more to do with education than they should.
Some athletes understand that they are here for school. Look at Carissa; Soccer is her life, but she does her school work and gets good grades. If only I played a sport. I guess. Who knows what I need. Education and finances are too closely related.
You have to remember that running a school is running a business and the people who own the school are doing it to make money, usually not JUST for education's sake.
Look at the teachers that are there, they probably teach because that's what they love to do and atheletes go to college to play sports because that's what they LOVE to do.
Some atheletes are smart enough to know that there has to be balance in life and that they will most likely not be able to make money playing their sport professionally.
The reason there are more athletic scholarships than education scholarships is because when a foundation or a school gives a scholarship it's usually because they hope to get something in return. Giving an amazingly intellegent teen a full ride to harvard means that harvard expects for the teen to invent something or discover something (i.e. theory of relativity) so you'd have to be amazingly intellegent and have already accomplished something great to get an educational scholarship. Harvard wants your discovery to get more people to pay the RIDICULOUSLY expensive tuition to them so they, MAKE MORE MONEY!
Now if you look at atheletic scholarships you have to remember that college sports get media coverage. Good sports teams sell tickets, paraphanalia, and build up the school to where everyone wants their kid to go there too! A much more likely way for the school to MAKE MORE MONEY!
It stinks, but a lot of things in life started out as a great idea (like harvard) and have become over shadowed by greed and peoples incorrect notions of superiority.
(what I mean is, don't look down on me because you went to Yale and I went to Devry. I still have the same degree you do, and I probably had to work a lot harder than you did to get it!)
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