College athletes at the Division I and II level are awarded scholarships for their extraordinary athletic talents and ability. The scholarship they get covers tuition, room, board, and course-related books. Unfortunately though, this is not the case.

As frustrating as it sounds, a “full ride” scholarship does not cover everything for a student-athlete. There are two types of scholarships: full and partial. A full athletic scholarship is covers tuition, certain course-related fees, room and board, and course-related books. A partial athletic scholarship covers only a portion of  the expenses that are covered in a full athletic scholarship. An athletic scholarship does not cover other things that involve an athlete going to college such as parking, a single room in the dorm, or library fines and late fees. It also does not cover off-campus housing after the student-athlete’s freshman year is completed.

A solution to this problem is to think about this other housekeeping items when giving out scholarships. Not every student athlete can afford the other incentives that come along when going to college. Some of them come from poverty and broken families, unlike their other teammates who do not come from broken families and have more money than they do.

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