[Mick]

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Yeah, the toughest thing with walk-ons is they seems to get less (or no) benefit of the doubt from admissions than scholarship athletes.  Didn't we have a walk-on kicker recruit a couple years ago who seemed like a shoo-in to get accepted, until he didn't?

Yes, Hayden Lekacz. Here is the thread discussing him last year. He ended up and Vanderbilt.

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=9535.0
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Does anyone have a sense for how the admissions office handles preferred walk-ons? Do they get the same attention as projected scholarship players, or are they in the general applicant pool? If it's the latter, there are obviously no shoe-ins.
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From what I've read, preferred walk-ons get more consideration than the general applicant pool, but less than projected scholarship players.
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Not sure how relevant this is, but when my son was recruited by several Ivies, the coach told him that he was limited to two "likely letters" which are the Ivy equivalent of letters-of-intent.  Essentially, they are reserved for the best two players, and in this case, the coach had reserved both of his likely letters for players that played a different position than young Mick.  The coach's dilemma was that he was losing five players off of his already thin roster.  He and the assistant athletic director of the department (whose sole role appeared to be getting athletes admitted) assured me that if we pursued the application process, odds of admission would jump up to about 60%.  Essentially the way it worked was that the coach would submit their preferred walkons (so to speak) in order, and the admissions folks would take some and not take others.  And sure enough, later that year, they admitted five athletes, two by likely letter, three by the augmented admissions process.  And FWLIW, the coach of the (very serious) club team at UC Brkeley stated the same thing, and even walked us through the process.  I still have the sample form. Each year, they would let us know the acceptance odds of the club athletes, never less than 45% and once as high as 75%.

[Mick]

[quote author=Hank 91 link=topic=9617.msg133671#msg133671 date=1444420322]
[quote author=PrinceLightfoot link=topic=9617.msg133648#msg133648 date=1444416439]
[quote author=CrazedZooChimp link=topic=9617.msg133644#msg133644 date=1444415577]
Yeah, the toughest thing with walk-ons is they seems to get less (or no) benefit of the doubt from admissions than scholarship athletes.  Didn't we have a walk-on kicker recruit a couple years ago who seemed like a shoo-in to get accepted, until he didn't?

Yes, Hayden Lekacz. Here is the thread discussing him last year. He ended up and Vanderbilt.

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=9535.0
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Does anyone have a sense for how the admissions office handles preferred walk-ons? Do they get the same attention as projected scholarship players, or are they in the general applicant pool? If it's the latter, there are obviously no shoe-ins.
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From what I've read, preferred walk-ons get more consideration than the general applicant pool, but less than projected scholarship players.
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Not sure how relevant this is, but when my son was recruited by several Ivies, the coach told him that he was limited to two "likely letters" which are the Ivy equivalent of letters-of-intent.  Essentially, they are reserved for the best two players, and in this case, the coach had reserved both of his likely letters for players that played a different position than young Mick.  The coach's dilemma was that he was losing five players off of his already thin roster.  He and the assistant athletic director of the department (whose sole role appeared to be getting athletes admitted) assured me that if we pursued the application process, odds of admission would jump up to about 60%.  Essentially the way it worked was that the coach would submit their preferred walkons (so to speak) in order, and the admissions folks would take some and not take others.  And sure enough, later that year, they admitted five athletes, two by likely letter, three by the augmented admissions process.  And FWLIW, the coach of the (very serious) club team at UC Brkeley stated the same thing, and even walked us through the process.  I still have the sample form. Each year, they would let us know the acceptance odds of the club athletes, never less than 45% and once as high as 75%.