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Lara Peco Fazanes

Lara Peco Fazanes

Founder & CEO of GPAthletes, specializing in athletic scholarships for international student-athletes in the US.

Jun 16, 2026

7:53
What would be maybe the most common reason somebody doesn't contact you and you think they probably should?
8:02
It's true that many times are the students the ones that contact me and then there are the parents that they don't give them the opportunity to have a simple call with me to actually know about the process or what is this.
8:15
And one of the main reasons I think is because of the money, you know, like they think it's going to be super expensive for them.
8:22
And you know that the system outside the US is completely different for families.
8:25
Like we don't really save money as in the US for college.
8:28
So thinking about going to a US university for them is like, oh, my God, it's going to be very expensive.
8:36
And it's not true.
13:07
So is there a way for a student, a student athlete or a family to kind of assess whether or not thinking about athletic scholarship is a good idea for them? Like who fits that category?

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