Well Fatwall, this is an athletics board so I mentioned athletics... I didn't spread false information. Reduced tuition and tuition assistance are ways for Catholic schools to "recruit". Other students in the school are paying full amounts, so even if you want to word it differently those students are receiving scholarships of a sort. That is what was meant by scholarships for Assumption. They don't hand them out like some sort of trophy where everything is free, but they will use the "academic" advantages and "reduced" tuition as a means to draw them in. I went to a private school and received reduced tuition costs, so I know the process. Waterloo used to have it at the private schools also. Columbus isn't doing it much anymore. Waterloo Christian(Walnut Ridge) is just trying to get students. NU High closed in Cedar Falls. Don Bosco is the only school in the area that has good athletics for private schools. They did have a Waterloo East player transfer in who will be eligible after Christmas for basketball, but I think that was his choice. They may have given tuition reduction or may not have. Either way tuition reduction is a form of recruitment/scholarships.
What I am gathering is the Mims and Techau kids were not in the Catholic school system prior to transferring in to Xavier, so the Younger Mims is also a transfer. Whether that was for schooling reasons or basketball reasons isn't my knowledge, but going from Prairie to Xavier isn't a choice a kid makes for friends reasons in Cedar Rapids and since Prairie is pretty good academically it is hard to justify that it was for a better school environment.
If kids were transferring from Wash or Jeff to Xavier I could understand the academics reasoning, otherwise it is only a slight academic advantage to go to Xavier. I would attribute that to the wealth of the school and students being in better family environments that majority of public school students, so they may not gain any academic advantage other than being around more educationally developed students.
