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Discriminating scholarships?
I'm so stressed out about university and I'm not good at sports at all (if I was even decent, I would give it a try). But there are such a high amount of money given to students that are so good in sports PLUS free residence, etc when the highest scholarship I can find for someone like me who studies their butt off is $3000 (if your average is 95%+!). Do you think that is fair? And why do they do that? That's so not far and obviously the athletic people will go into professional jobs but some people that are book smart are going to be in univsersity for a LONG time!
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Ugh, I feel your pain. Fortunately, the most that an athlete can receive in Canada is their tuition.
There are a few reasons why they'd offer scholarships to athletic students:
- Because the people who gave them the money to disperse indicated that that was what they wanted done with it (alumni are a huge source of scholarship funds)
- Because college sports are a huge source of income for the school, so they can afford to treat their athletic people well.
- Because having star athletes is like advertising for the school, and it will draw more students.
Unfortunately, nobody is lining up to see people be good at philosophy or engineering.
Don't limit yourself to the scholarships offered by the school for entrance. Lots of companies and groups offer scholarships. It might take writing a few dozen essays, but you can make quite a bit.
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