“Ton of financial aid”...your words. Need based aid equals Pell Grant, $5500. So yeah, he will most likely needs a full scholarship. Think you were also the one who talked about HS athletes being paid and college wrestlers being paid by their schools club to do clinics...so there’s that too at psu i guess. When it’s you that has said it you pretty much have to own it.
I definitely own what I said. You, like most always, just presented a "half right, mixed up" version of it. Athletes at the college level most definitely get paid to do clinics - not just at PSU but all over. But, no, this is not being organized by the school. Here's a fine and recent example of this:
Separate issue is school or RTC run camps, which employ counselors and clinicians at the prevailing rate. This is what Vodka concentrated on.
Concentrating on stuff like this is another example of not really knowing what the landscape is. While the gigs are good for college students, they can't make a consistent buck from it. One guy on here extrapolated making $30,000 grand a summer looking at a lucrative gig on a weekend and then multiplying it by 15 weeks in the summer. 1) there just aren't that many lucrative gigs around, and 2) the schedule that most ALL D1 wrestlers have in the summer limits the opportunity. My guy (non-PSU) has yet to do anything in college (this year RS) but is a J-Rob alumni, so he just got offered a nice gig as a counselor. Hopefully, he will be able to work A camp into his summer schedule which will involve taking classes and working out with other members of his squad. More than one camp, or even the 28-day one, will likely be out of the question.
Again, I have to address you with the financial aid. Again, half picture of what is really available to ALL students. Not even half. Out-of-state does limit some FA opportunities in some cases. In-state opens up other state agencies (in PA, NJ and NY, that I'm aware of - never considered a college in IA, so may be different here). Also, with just a Pell Grant and a GSL, you've now shaved about .25 off of a PSU OOS full scholarship.
If you are invested enough to throw sh*t out there like you generally do, maybe you should dig a little deeper than just "heard it from a friend." You may not have a kid in the situation as I do, but all of this info is readily available if you take the time to research it. Well, maybe not the camp stuff. But given your "access" you ought to be able to find that out beyond what you post.