Division III athletes receive three times more financial aid than non-athletes, ranging from $60,000 to $300,000. Elite schools like Claremont McKenna complete recruiting by junior year using pre-reads. If a coach shows interest but offers no aid or admission pathway, they may not be serious.
Actually, a lot more money in Division III than people think. We have students get between $60,000 to $300,000 from Division III schools. Now, I know all of you are going, there's no athletic money, there's no athletic money. That's not true. While it's true that there is no athletic scholarship, there are massive amounts of academic. And this woman will explain to you that for every dollar an academic gets, an athlete gets $3 in academic scholarship. So that means if you were to get $10,000 as a normal muggle person, non-superpowers, as an athlete wizard, you would get $30,000. Now you have to get admitted into the school for this to happen, and that's really hard, hence why soccer can be the reason you get admitted. For example, Claremont McKenna just told us the other day, if you go back to one of my other videos, they have only 6 spots available to where they can get you in, and those are for the game changers. So they recruit them a lot earlier. And just so you know, Claremont said they were done recruiting with their class going into your junior year. So September of your junior year on the girls' side. For the men's side, it's a little bit later than that, but still very early. So if you want to get recruited as one of their people that are going to be admitted, that means they're often doing pre-reads in your summer going into your junior year or summer going into your senior year if you're on the boys' side. Now not only have you gotten into the school because of soccer, you maybe got a ton of scholarships. In my own case, I got a full ride. 80% of it was academic and then 20% of it was athletic, and that's how the coach was able to give me a full ride. I wouldn't have gotten any of that if it wasn't for sports. So scholarships, of course, is massive for all of us, but we don't really care where the money comes from. Now, one more important fact about the money is if a coach says to you, I really like you, and then they don't offer you any money, or they don't offer you opportunity to get admitted into the school, then it could very much mean that they don't actually love you as much as they say. I got an offer from Cal Poly and they took it away from me my senior year. There was no money on the table and I didn't ask the right questions. So money means two things. One, we all like money. And one, do they actually like you? If you want to know the best way to get a scholarship, comment the word scholarship and I'll send you a list of to-dos that you need to do to get a scholarship.
