<p>What are the chances of being able to be a walkon at an ivy league school?
are there certain restrictions?</p>
<p>at harvard, anyone call walk on.</p>
<p>If you are interested in walking on, call the football coach/office asap and ask him how it works at their school. Many walk-on athletes actually have agreements with coaches before they get on campus. If you can help them win, they will be happy to hear from you. If you want, send the coach an introductory letter first with: name, football stats, transcript, phone numbers of hs coach, and all relevant test scores. (If you are a rising senior, give them a copy of your schedule for next season as well). Then follow up with a phone call. Good luck.</p>
<p>Most teams already have a significant number of walkons as they can only officially recruit a certain number of players. Unless you've been playing/training all summer you'll be way behind the curve.</p>
<p>Preseason starts in a month...</p>
<p>any other advise? </p>
<p>any of you walk on in a sport in college?</p>
<p>my advice, learn how to spell ivy before you try and go to a premier school.</p>
<p>that wasn't very nice</p>
<p>marcsman, i have a very good friend who walked onto the football team second semester...</p>
<p>You have better have been captain or one of the top starters on a good high school team because just because the Ivy League isn't the Big Ten it is still filled with intense football players often recruited from the best prep school football teams (which are better then the public school teams in new england).</p>
<p>A walk-on doesn't necessarily have to be good enough to contribute in games. Ideally that would be the case, but sometimes they are put on the team to be part of the practice squad and to increase competition within the team. If you have the size of most (ivy) college players at your position, a decent level of athleticism, and a lot of determination, then you have a chance.</p>
<p>CONLAX11 wrote: "just because the Ivy League isn't the Big Ten it is still filled with intense football players often recruited from the best prep school football teams (which are better then the public school teams in new england)."</p>
<p>I'm not saying that this isn't true, but it sure is difficult to believe. Thinking about some of the tougher, scruffier towns in New England, I can't imagine a top prep school putting together a bigger or hungrier team. </p>
<p>Do you have stats on this?</p>
<p>Ever hear of a booster player? With 35 spots for football recruits, you had better bet there is room for booster, ESPECIALLY WALK ON BOOSTERS. </p>
<p>Spidey...Prep schools are often better than public, just look at any states play off bracket. The misconception lies that prep school kids have good grades. Much more often than not, these prep school kids are great fball players, but simply don't have the grades. I know of no top prospects with competitive grades to match. The top prospects are always a step behind the rest. A case that I remember is a black kid from the mid-west with a 28 ACT, who was a football all-star. Harvard thought this was a very rare case and pursued him because of that 28 ACT.</p>
<p>As mentioned earlier the best way to find out is to contact coaches directly. My guess would be you could walk-on to any of the IVY league teams as long as you are a good enough / big enough athlete they would not be worried that you would get hurt. That said being allowed to walk on in no way means you get near the field during a game or scrimmage. </p>
<p>There are sometimes also special rules for walk-ons as opposed to recruited players in regards to things like training tables (meals) and tutors ... I have no idea of the specific rules for non-scholarship DI-AA football (like the IVY league).</p>
<p>i agree with spidey, my friend who walked onto the Harvard football team is not especially big he is like 5'6 170 lbs and he's not particularly good... he just wanted to play...</p>
<p>How would a person use football as a hook to get into an Ivy? Bessie offered:</p>
<p>"If you are interested in walking on, call the football coach/office asap and ask him how it works at their school. Many walk-on athletes actually have agreements with coaches before they get on campus. If you can help them win, they will be happy to hear from you. If you want, send the coach an introductory letter first with: name, football stats, transcript, phone numbers of hs coach, and all relevant test scores. (If you are a rising senior, give them a copy of your schedule for next season as well). Then follow up with a phone call. Good luck."</p>
<p>But beyond that, are there certain known parameters (specific stats, rankings, grades, teams, etc.). Any more information out there?</p>
<p>another possible option ... most IVY league schools have a 150 lb football team in addition to the traditional varsity team which gives a lot more students the chance to play in college. Depending on if your prime goal is to be on the regular team or to play a lot this may be an option worth checking out ... I do not know if Harvard has a 150s team but it is easy enough to find out on their athletics page.</p>
<p>Nope. The 150lb team is probably what used to be freshman football, which no longer exists.</p>
<p>Sprint football. 172lb football club at princeton, penn, and cornell. it is an official NCAA sport; they recruit</p>
<p>I believe freshman football may have turned into sprint, don't quote be though, I know the weight limit for sprint used to be 150lbs though.</p>
<p>But 3 schools out of 8? Not much of a competition.</p>