Are college scholarships a fixed amount of money per month, no matter where the school ...or are they a variable dollar amount set by the cost of attending that school, such as tuition, books, room and board?
What I'm really asking is how does a student-athlete from a lower income family situation afford to go to a very expensive school such as USC, Duke or Stanford if a scholarship is a fixed amount set by the NCAA, such as $12,000 per year?
If it's the latter case (varying amount depending on tuition costs at each school), an athletic scholarship at an elite private Div IA school would be worth one heck of a lot more than one to a Mega-state U.
Just wondering which it is and how that might be used as a recruiting tool by the elite private schools.
