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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This website is worth checking out. It is data reported (not useless anecdata). It shows total varsity athlete numbers per college and splits for male and female. It is a combined number for all 4 years but freshman year is always the highest due to recruited athletes. There is drop off in senior and junior year so freshmen account for the highest amount of that number.

VERY FEW varsity athletes are walk-ons for SLACs.

https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details[/quote]

Not all athletes at a college are recruited.[/quote]

My DD is being recruited for track. The coach of the LACs she's been talking to say very few (almost none) walk-on. So I'd assume that the vast majority are recruited.[/quote]

Exactly. Hey DCUM - can you share your personal experience of your DC successfully walking-on to a varsity team at Williams, Swat, Amherst, Pomona, Bowdoin, CMC, Wesleyan, etc. in the past 5 years?

Do you have any real-life examples to share of this happening?

Crickets.

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I do. Japanese student and a DC private school kid who both joined soccer at Pomona. The team has 7 walk ons in total. This isn't completely improbable.[/quote]

This is misleading. The “DC private school” kid was trying to get recruited, but did not have the club level needed. At a school like Pomona, if the coach thinks you might be good enough, but isn’t willing to burn an early read/likely letter request on you, they will tell you that if you get in, they will take a look at you. This is especially true at Pomona, where they have no shortage of talented California kids trying out.

There will occasionally be true ‘walk on’ kids from overseas, where the coach hasn’t had a chance to see them or is unfamiliar with where they played in their home country.

There’s one LAC out there with 2 kids from Brazil, one from Spain and another from Japan. Those kids were all technically walk-ons, but their soccer pedigree was beyond reproach.

Finally, there’s now significant downward pressure from soccer going to smaller max rosters in D1. There will be more D1 or Bust kids that “bust” and end up doing a last minute move to D3. [/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about.[/quote]

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