Posted on 05/01/2015 11:16:49 AM PDT by cdga5for4
One of the schools she heard back from, and the school that I felt she was most interested in all along, was Boston College. What she learned during her communication with the coach was shocking to her. Boston College does not offer any athletic scholarships to its swimmers. None. Zero. Is it any wonder that BC really can't compete against other top schools in the ACC in swimming?
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FWIW my daughter will be swimming for a major D-1 swim school this fall. No money.
She had mid-tier D-1 schools throwing 50% scholarships at her, which is about as much as you can expect in swimming, unless you are Missy Franklin.
Fortunately I have been blessed and can send her to this school at a good price. We want her to go to as good a school as possible so she knows just how good she can be. She wants the same.
Q. What is Title IX?Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Q. Who does Title IX apply to?
Title IX applies to all educational institutions, both public and private, that receive federal funds. Almost all private colleges and universities must abide by Title IX regulations because they receive federal funding through federal financial aid programs used by their students.
Q. How is Title IX applied to athletics?
Athletics programs are considered educational programs and activities. There are three basic parts of Title IX as it applies to athletics:
1.Participation: Title IX requires that women and men be provided equitable opportunities to participate in sports. Title IX does not require institutions to offer identical sports but an equal opportunity to play;
2.Scholarships: Title IX requires that female and male student-athletes receive athletics scholarship dollars proportional to their participation; and
3.Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes in the provisions of:
(a) equipment and supplies;
(b) scheduling of games and practice times;
(c) travel and daily allowance/per diem;
(d) access to tutoring;
(e) coaching,
(f) locker rooms, practice and competitive facilities;
(g) medical and training facilities and services;
(h) housing and dining facilities and services;
(i) publicity and promotions;
(j) support services and
(k) recruitment of student-athletes.
1. Swimming costs a lot to fund, and almost no one goes to the meets or cares about the outcome.
2. Due to the federally-required equality in athletic scholarships, a lot of young men no longer get them either. No college/university will start spending its nest egg on mere student tuition - that's what your money is for.
B.C.....
$46,000 tuition
I paid $2600.00 yr.(73-76)
Insanity
Buy your kid a 10 unit apt. building, and send them to a state junior college : )
All the fans at swimming events are parents. Or potential suitors, hoping to get lucky. Swimming is like watching someone on a stairclimber.
It is interesting at the Olympics.
VERY FEW recipients are actually qualified for college.
Does anyone really care?
Women are at least as smart as men and probably they are much smarter. Society gains when they are in the workplace. The real loss to society is that women become competitive. Women have higher capacity for empathy, nurturing and sympathy which is all lost on society when they go head to head in sports, education, and business.
Gamecock, it is, yes. Sounds like you are going about it in the right manner. Congrats to your daughter.
HAHAHAHAHA! If you're always this funny, I could book you in Vegas for three shows a week.
What you say is true. Other than the Olympics, swimming is not a glamour sport. We had our parents and our girlfriends in the stands. Some of the time. Since our meets were in the afternoons, right after school, our parents didn't take off work unless it was a big meet.
Still, there must be something about the type of kid who will get up to be in the pool at 6 AM for before school practice, and will log another couple of hours after school every day... back and forth for miles over the same 25 yard stretch.
I think nearly everyone on our team was an honor roll student.
The point I was trying to make is that women more valuable at home with the home and children because they have empathy and nurturing in the more traditional role. These qualities are completely lost when women compete against each and against men in society. Husbands and wives may even become professional revivals or opponents in the workplace.
Swimmers and wrestlers are top on my list of college hires.
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