Brett Patterson
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GreenisGood
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Brett Patterson
on the Sioux City website it says he has committed to play at Dartmouth. Congrats. Should do well in the ECAC
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seek & destroy
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Congrats to another good player from Minnesota! Is Dartmouth another one of the D1 schools that does not offer athletic scholarships? I think Harvard, Dartmouth and few others are fantastic schools but they don't offer athletic scholarships but do offer academic help but I'm not sure. Just wondering if that is true?
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MNHockeyFan
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None of the Ivy League schools offer true athletic scholarships for any sport. But being really good at hockey (or something else, not necessarily a sport) can help you greatly in getting admitted. You still need at least pretty good grades and/or test scores that meet a higher than average level, as compared to most other schools, and all accepted athletes can't just be at the minimum. They will often take some really smart kids to offset some more talented athletes that are at or close to the minimum, in order to raise the average for the team as a whole. And of course each Ivy school is a little different - some are a little tougher to get into than others.seek & destroy wrote:Congrats to another good player from Minnesota! Is Dartmouth another one of the D1 schools that does not offer athletic scholarships? I think Harvard, Dartmouth and few others are fantastic schools but they don't offer athletic scholarships but do offer academic help but I'm not sure. Just wondering if that is true?
Once you do get admitted the amount of scholarship money you get is based purely on financial need, whether you play sports or not. There are many examples of excellent hockey players and other athletes that don't receive any financial aid because their parents are very well off.