Well? Are you okay with athletic scholarships being given out from institutes that should be focusing on academics? Okay with only private scholarships?
Some things to keep in mind:
The average athletic scholarship is about $10,400. Only four sports offer full rides to all athletes who receive scholarships: football, men's and women's basketball, and women's volleyball. If you exclude football and men's basketball,
the average scholarship drops to around $8,700." (
Source)
"...recipients of athletic scholarships tend to be somewhat wealthier than non-recipients." (5)
"The average GPA [at the undergraduate level] was 2.88 for athletic scholarship recipients and 2.99 for non-recipients, a 0.11 difference in GPA." (5)
"The average SAT score in 2007-08 for recipients of athletic scholarships was 989, compared with 1045 for non-recipients, a 56-point difference. The average ACT score in 2007-08 for recipients of athletic scholarships was 21.1, compared with 22.5 for non-recipients, a 1.4 point difference." (6)
Source
"Based on data from those requests and dozens of interviews, a CNN investigation revealed that most schools have between
7% and 18% of revenue sport athletes who are reading at an elementary school level. Some had even higher percentages of below-threshold athletes.
According to those academic experts, the threshold for being college-literate is a score of 400 on the SAT critical reading or writing test. On the ACT, that threshold is 16.
Many student-athletes scored in the 200s and 300s on the SAT critical reading test -- a threshold that experts told us was an elementary reading level and too low for college classes. The lowest score possible on that part of the SAT is 200, and the national average is 500." (
Source, whole article is a pretty good read with both sides)
Thoughts?
