Sometimes I don't understand college selection decisions. I just added JACOB SEIGLE from SUSQUEHANNA HS as another Twitter commit to CAL U. Seems like a nice but not exceptional player. While I was googling him I came upon this article https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2019...ird-offer.html
It turns out this young man is also pretty bright and has offers of some sort from 3 IVIES, YALE, PENN and COLUMBIA, and yet seems content to follow his HS teammate STEVENS GRAVES to the Mon Valley. Don't get me wrong I love intelligent solid linebackers but in what universe do you pass on an IVY LEAGUE education to play D2 football in Western PA. Any thoughts???
Sometimes I don't understand college selection decisions. I just added JACOB SEIGLE from SUSQUEHANNA HS as another Twitter commit to CAL U. Seems like a nice but not exceptional player. While I was googling him I came upon this article https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2019...ird-offer.html
It turns out this young man is also pretty bright and has offers of some sort from 3 IVIES, YALE, PENN and COLUMBIA, and yet seems content to follow his HS teammate STEVENS GRAVES to the Mon Valley. Don't get me wrong I love intelligent solid linebackers but in what universe do you pass on an IVY LEAGUE education to play D2 football in Western PA. Any thoughts???
Sometimes I don't understand college selection decisions. I just added JACOB SEIGLE from SUSQUEHANNA HS as another Twitter commit to CAL U. Seems like a nice but not exceptional player. While I was googling him I came upon this article https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2019...ird-offer.html
It turns out this young man is also pretty bright and has offers of some sort from 3 IVIES, YALE, PENN and COLUMBIA, and yet seems content to follow his HS teammate STEVENS GRAVES to the Mon Valley. Don't get me wrong I love intelligent solid linebackers but in what universe do you pass on an IVY LEAGUE education to play D2 football in Western PA. Any thoughts???
maybe he got offers but didn't get into the school either.
That is a big difference. Maybe he feels like he can earn an academic merit money in addition to the athletic scholarship at Cal U. Who knows....
Financial aid at IVIES is insane due to the size of their endowments. YALE has a $30 BILLION endowment and distributes something around $125 MILLION in financial aid each year. Families with an income of less than $75,000 are not expected to pay anything. The opportunity to walk into a job interview with a fellow YALE alum or even another IVY is one of the most significant examples of privilege out there. He can certainly come out with a degree and minimal debt from CAL U, but that is nothing like an Ivy League degree. Hope he's making the right choice.
Financial aid at IVIES is insane due to the size of their endowments. YALE has a $30 BILLION endowment and distributes something around $125 MILLION in financial aid each year. Families with an income of less than $75,000 are not expected to pay anything. The opportunity to walk into a job interview with a fellow YALE alum or even another IVY is one of the most significant examples of privilege out there. He can certainly come out with a degree and minimal debt from CAL U, but that is nothing like an Ivy League degree. Hope he's making the right choice.
I agree with you 100% in the comparison of education. Maybe his family was not aware of the possible free aid they could have received, this happens quite a bit. However, good pick up for Cal U.
It's also possible that their attraction was to his grades/scores but he realized he wouldn't fit in. In my experience Western PA fits better with the Southeast than with the elite Northeast.
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