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MOMents - Chasing Scholarship Money

Keep your eyes on the report card

As I enter the college application fray, I am frequently asked the same question. Do you think your kids will get an athletic scholarship? The process is far from over, but if anyone is asking me what I think, the answer is no. I do not think my kids or most of their friends will get an athletic scholarship. What no one asks, but what I think will happen, is that many students I know will get merit aid, a blanket term for the discretionary funds that many colleges seem to have at their disposal to reward academic performance. I am asked the athletic money question on the playing fields and courts of Swampscott. Perhaps it is here that parents and kids alike dream about sports scholarships. And, in their dreams, pursue this goal without …

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ross greenstein

12:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

If any parents have any questions I would be happy to answer them. It is a case by case, family by family, school by school issue. It takes time to learn how the student athletes options are different and then making the best choice for the family. If you don't know how your options are different on and off the field you can't choose the school that is best for you. scholarshipforathletes.com …   more ›

MOMents: College Daze

So many stops on the way to life

  Every year it is the same. There are accomplished seniors who do not get into their first choice schools. Their initial reaction is to look back on all the things they did until this point in their young lives and question. Was it worth it? Was the problem one bad grade or one bad score? Should he have taken four years of Spanish instead off three years of Latin? Did she have a typo on the application?  One girl felt that her average SAT scores trumped years of hard earned accomplishments in high school. Why couldn't her first choice school see past this one thing? In time, these teens will see that everything they have done in their young lives has value. They will see that their whole life does not depend on a single admissions …

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