“I love football, but basketball is my favorite sport. All the scholarship offers I received were for football, so I decided I am gonna have to try to walk-on and be a two-sport athlete.”
Curtis Brown
“This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man”
Christine de Pisan
“Anybody we offered (a scholarship to) in the state of Wisconsin is in this program now.”
Bret Bielema
“After we saw (Crump) live we offered him a scholarship and tried to convince him that this was the place for him, ... He is great in the open floor. He likes to get out and run and just create. He is just good at distributing the ball all over the court.”
Matt Painter
“We do receive some financial assistance, but the aspect that makes Golden Apple Scholars so different from other scholarship programs is that we commit our four summers of college to teaching in Chicago and gaining experience.”
Dakota Pawlicki
“The raw odds are 1 in 25 (in getting a scholarship), ... And the average amount received is about $1,600. If you're just a random student, C average, no interesting hobbies, you're unlikely to get aid.”
Mark Kantrowitz
“Max really liked Virginia because they were the first to recruit him, the first to offer him [a scholarship]. I believe one of the reasons he committed was that they wanted him as a running back.”
Don Hansen
