| Most parents of students involved in a sport dare to | | | | -Don't contact any coach before your child's junior |
| think, at least once while they're watching their child | | | | year. |
| play, that their little superstar may one day get a full | | | | -Create a resume with all your pertinent information, |
| scholarship to the college of their dreams. | | | | including name, address, phone, high school, as well as |
| It's a nice dream, and unfortunately for the vast | | | | your athletic experience. Include your prospective |
| majority of college bound students, it remains a dream. | | | | major, as well as the position you've played and any |
| It's not just because your child isn't the superior athlete | | | | statistics you have. The resume should also have |
| you thought they were, it's that the vast majority of | | | | contact information for your coach. Let your high |
| college athletes play without one penny of scholarship | | | | school coach know where you'll be applying and that |
| money. | | | | you've included their name in the correspondence. |
| Ivy League schools, for example, don't offer athletic | | | | -Include your grades and SAT scores. Colleges are far |
| scholarships at all (though a superior athlete with good | | | | more likely to award scholarships to good athletes with |
| grades does have an increased chance of being | | | | good grades, so don't ignore that part of your high |
| admitted to such a school). Sixty percent of college | | | | school experience. |
| athletes don't have a scholarship, and most of the | | | | -Have a video of you ready to send and offer to send |
| remaining 40 percent have only partial ones. It's actually | | | | it to them upon request. |
| pretty rare for a child to obtain a full scholarship | | | | -Proof read everything. Make certain your grammar |
| because coaches are faced with divvying up a set | | | | and spelling is correct. If you are e-mailing the coach |
| amount of scholarship money over than entire team. | | | | and do not get a response within a month, e-mail again. |
| For example, say Smart University has four full | | | | Remember, coaches receive hundreds of e-mails and |
| scholarships for its basketball team. That doesn't mean | | | | letters requesting the exact thing you are. |
| that four students get a free ride. It usually means | | | | -Apply for a scholarship even if you don't think you're |
| those four scholarships are divided up between 20 | | | | good enough. Most students don't get scholarships |
| students. | | | | because they don't think they are good enough to |
| Still, any money your child receives for an athletic | | | | warrant one. You don't have to be a superstar to |
| scholarship is nice, and there are ways you and your | | | | receive a scholarship. |
| college bound student can increase their chances of | | | | Remember, if you don't apply for a scholarship, no one |
| obtaining a scholarship. Here are some do's and don't's | | | | is going to hand it to you. You never know unless you |
| for applying for an athletic scholarship: | | | | try. |