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Athletic Scholarships: Thousands of Grants-And over $400 Million-For College-Bound Athletes

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Don't waste your money. This book is outdated. It is merely 300 pages of college listings. Everything in the book can be found on the net for FREE

I'm a sophomore in a community college and I read this book to help me get into a good 4 year college next year. I play a sport and I found this book to be the best one I have read so far! Not only does this help with the recruiting process, but it has $400M worth of Athletic Scholarships! I highly recommend this for any high schooler looking to play sports in college and for students wishing to transfer and participate in athletics.

The title of this book would lead one to believe that there was actual information on scholarships in this book. The reality is that this book is not much more than an alphabetical listing of schools and their sports. The high school counselor's office has this info for free. I found this book to be useless and feel cheated having bought it. It is so general (and I use the term loosely) and simplistic, it's almost laughable. If I could return it I would. IT WAS A WASTE OF MONEY.

Don't let the book's publication date fool you... the information in this book is outdated from 1998-99. The listings include schools by old/outdated names, had outdated contact information (to the college PR offices in many cases, not even coaches for the sport, I might add), and has sports that have long ago been dropped from intercollegiate competition to "club" status. With the changes in the college sports scene brought on by the gender equity rules, the men's sports programs listed in this book include more sports than are actually at most colleges. Conversely, the women's sports programs listed here show fewer programs than are now available. This book is outdated terribly. Purchasing it at this time would be a total waste of money for anyone trying to find current athletic scholarship information.