I'd save enough for the kid to have basic tuition, a just above poverty standard of living, for 4 years, and stipulate any extra curricular has to be offset by job or scholarship.

Because, that's how it used to work, whether you do it in gold bars, bit coin, or a weird 529 plan, pick your biscuit, your time would be better spent sticking to the doctrine in the first sentence.

$200/month for my 1 kid. Grandparents kick in $500/yr towards it.

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Halfway joking here - I'm urging my girls to start golf/tennis at a young age. From people I have talked to, there aren't enough girls out there playing these sports at a high enough level for all of the scholarships that are available.

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While easier to get a female tennis scholarship than male-- Still not a good plan.

We get flooded by foreign players that take scholarships. Some teams barely even bother recruiting any Americans.To get to a level good enough to play d1 tennis, probably could have invested all the money on lessons/drills and paid for college.

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This is like all the baseball dads investing in tons of $ in select ball thinking their kid is future guaranteed MLB material. Or , at the very least worthy of a full ride baseball scholarship. All that money spent...

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lol, this has always amazed me, it is worse in baseball and softball than in any other sport. They play select ball, pay for pitching lessons, travel all over to games and tournaments, all the while thinking their son or daughter is going to get a full scholarship somewhere, or for the boys, wind up in MLB. I got so tired of hearing things like "the Brewers had a couple of scouts at the game and they said nobody had a curveball like Bubba has." Or, "this one scout said they are always looking for left handers with an arm like Bubba." On and on, otherwise sharp people but blind as a bat when it came to their kid's future in sports. I heard that when our kids were playing, so 8 to 10 years worth of it. I think one kid, in all that time, got a partial scholarship at some junior college. He quit after a year in their program.

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Agreed. Some people are blind. Even big time baseball programs like A&M don't offer full scholarships for the entire roster.

Virtually no player ever gets a full ride on baseball. It's most always a partial.