<p>Preferred walk on will get help with admissions, at Duke, Vandy, Stanford, Rice. and Northwestern.</p>
<p>Preferred walk on are assured a spot on the team and some travel and dress for the games.</p>
<p>The reasons athletes choose to pursue the path of a preferred walk-on:</p>
<p>The athlete targets a team considered more athletically prestigious. Preferred wallk ons do go to conference championships, bowl games and get the gifts of participants and champions.</p>
<p>Targeted team may already be saturated at their position, doesn’t mean it won’t open next year. </p>
<p>Athlete chooses school for purely academic/geographic reasons. </p>
<p>Athlete rather carry on tradition of being part of a particular team (scion of alumnus) rather than being placed in a starting position. </p>
<p>Depends on your career choice … going phD=academics are ivy snobs.
I know Duke, Rice, Northwestern, Stanford Vandy alums with snobby jobs too.</p>
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