Do the research on the schools listed below, as they are from the NCWSA 08 eastern regionals. Don't forget to look at the, "Left coast" as well. Go to the NCWSA.com site for a complete list.

You cannot just look at tuition as a cost of the education. Tuition is only a part of the whole. You will have to pay for the dorm room and meals as well as the dreaded, "fees" some schools charge. I am well aware of tuition that is extremely inexpensive in some places and yet the fees are many times the tuition in some universities.

To my knowledge, there is no increase for a non US student in comparison to a US resident, but there are discounts to state owned and operated schools for a resident of that state, in comparison to a resident of another state. In that case, you would just be classified as the other non state residents.

Where is your home country?

Be advised that you should only be looking at schools with ski teams, as they tend to be in areas of the USA where you can ski year round. You would not want to attend a school in the North and be snowed out of the water skiing you could be doing elsewhere.

If you ski well, then by all means, check out the financial scholarships available to team members.

Wade's the guy to talk to since he has been through all this.

Best wishes.


09U024C       EASTERN REGION REGIONALS       COMBINED TEAM       

        DETAILS OF TEAM SCORES AND PLACES       AS OF  15:25  09-28-2008

TEAM NAME               ID     SLALOM PLC 

FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLE  FSC    3290.0  1 
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   ALA    2540.0  2   
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY      CLE    2415.0  3   
ROLLINS COLLEGE         ROL    2375.0  4   
UNIV OF NC CHAPEL HILL  NCH    1720.0  6 
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   UGA    1955.0  5   
GEORGIA SOUTHERN        GAS    1310.0  7   
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY  WFU     840.0  8   
ELON UNIVERSITY         ELU     830.0  9   
AUBURN UNIVERSITY       AUB     565.0 11

Make sure you also look into scholarships that are available for international students as there are many of those offered by schools in an effort to have more students like yourself.

Don't forget about good ol' ULM! Louisiana Monroe does pretty good in 3 event skiing.

i ski for ALABAMA!!

Tuition and fees will all be completely different and i would suggest looking finding some schools you're interested for other reasons before considering them. There is also a great variance in skiers in all of the D1 teams. I am going to the University of Texas, and our team ranges from people who are beginning open-water skiers all the way to two of us who reached -38 at a tournament last weekend. Look at usnews.com and you can find a huge list of all the best schools and probably some tuitions, and then find where you're favourite ski teams are placed academically. I know all of the ski teams in the south central region ski year round, not sure about the others. Anywhere you go the best part of collegiate skiing is making sure to have as much fun as possible in the sport.

Dependsob what school you go to. In collegiate skiing, overall three event skiers are more economical
than a single eventer. So if you're a great overall skier you'll have a g
better chance with the scholarships, but it isn't exactly college football or anything, I don't think you'll in a full ride. A lot of small schools do a good job of offering academc scholarships if you have any sort of decent grades in high school -- you'll have more assistance if you can get both awards.

Eric --

Chase it up through the UCF management. Club sports department. It is basically YOUR deal. No one else has their act together @ UCF. Florida Southen & Rollins have a few tournaments with each other this fall, and all you need is some approval from your school in order to start (or restart) your college team.

I remember Doug - I seem to recall something about you heading to UCF too. You should roll out to SkiTek if you need some skiing, it's right down the road