(06-07-2016 09:52 AM)davidw Wrote:  Ok Alvin set me straight on the scholly situation:

Rice does give both need-based and merit-based schollys.

the problem with the merit-based is that you have to treat everyone the same, and as such the bar at Rice is set very high (or else everyone in school would qualify). So baseball players aren't likely to fall into this category academically, in competition with our regular superb student body.

need-based schollys work, but the NCAA has a rule that any such aid has to OFFSET against any athletic scholarship aid offered. So this doesn't do us any good.

Wayne is pushing the rules people to allow schools to 'stack' need-based aid on top of athletic scholly aid; said that would help tremendously in our recruiting, given our tuition level.

Thank you (again) Alvin.

This is a big deal.

Let me say it differently... SOME schools give say a 25% merit based schollys for scoring 1400 (old scale) on the SAT... but that is 90+% of the Rice population and perhaps only 50% of the UT population or 25% of the UH population....

Need to find a way around that.

Like perhaps that the NCAA would set some sort of standard whereby a school could give 'athletic' scholarships of up to 25% or 50% of the cost of tuition that didn't count against the 11.7 'athletic' max for attaining certain academic standards.