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Yes it would. The NCAA cares about the number of athletes on the team,

which can also include walk-ons. The perfect athlete for Olympic sports is one with athletic talent and parents on either end of the wealth spectrum: affluent parents who care more about getting the kid into the school and can pay full boat or poor kids who qualify for full financial aid that can substitute for an athletic scholarship. The kids with parents in the middle get the partials.

For schools with huge endowments, such as the Ivies, Stanford, Duke and Northwestern, all students whose parents make below about $100K/yr get a free ride. That's how the Ivies have good Olympic sports teams without athletic scholarships and how some of the others (like Stanford) can stretch their athletic scholarship counts. The military academies have a similar advantage.

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Posted: 06/14/2021 at 5:27PM

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