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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 know of two in the last 4 years on a NESCAC volleyball team. Different schools, Williams and Midd so it does happen. I know that it is rare. I believe that the larger teams might have a couple sprinkled in but you can figure roughly 150-170 of the ED kids each year at a NESCAC are recruited athletes.[/quote]

I know of 2 walk ons at Williams for swimming. 1 Diving & 1 swimming at Bowdoin, 1 football Pomona. [/quote]

Bog teams, not reflective of recruiting. Lots of extra kids on the swim team, football team, etc. Costs nothing for a kid to swim or run with a team but they often don’t travel or actually participate in events. Same for practice football players. Those people are not part of this discussion. NESCAC for example has rules….two fully supported players for each sport plus 14 more for football. They then get an equal number of “tips” which are basically guaranteed admissions for recruits above the academic median. This means roughly 150-170 recruits per year in ED. Can actually go a bit higher in “tips” if the AO agrees so it can be more and sometimes club sports can get “tips” as well.[/quote]

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