They will qualify for athletic and academic which can be bundled. Example $44,000 Get .25 for athletics which is $11,000 and then a $15,000 for a 1200 SAT and a 95 GPA Nets at $18,000 which is just slightly cheaper than going to Stony Brook or Suny Bing.
The ones who lose are the pure athletic kids that barely hit the academic admission minimums and then just get the .25 with no athletic money. What no one ever talks about is that they have spent $30,000 or more on club lacrosse to get a $15,000 athletic scholarship
Question, when you say merit, lets take UNC and Duke. To get in to either you need to be in the top of your class( as out of state at UNC) with a very high SAT. Kid in my school just who is ranked 7th with a combined SAT 1450 got denied UNC wait listed Duke. To get a merit based money at either of those schools you would need to be something like 1 in your class and 1550 sat or are the standards lower for athletes?
This is where it gets tricky, the minimums to get athletes in is way lower at many institutions. Those kids just get some athletic money and then usually struggle in the classroom. Those are the kids that [lacrosse] off the non athletes. To your point a straight 1450 gets denied but a kid who can barely write their name and play ball gets in! Anyone follow the UNC scandal? Ever hear a Duke basketball player give an interview? Remember when Urban Meyer turned down Notre Dame because that was a school that wouldn't bend and "he couldn't get the kids he needed in". The great athletes are rewarded at schools they would never get a sniff at academically
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