What extra benefits do recruited athletes get?

Colleges & Universities Duke University
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<p>So I hear recruited athletes get their own private tutors? Any extra facilities or anything (besides their own weight rooms I guess)?</p>

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<p>Read the book “I am Charlotte Simmons,” written, as the author has suggested, about the down and dirty of Duke. Be warned though, there is crude language and explicit stuff, but it gives you a good idea about how athletes are treated.</p>

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<p>^^ Uh, no. Bad advice. Tom Wolfe (the author) explicitly denies that the book is about Duke in any way. So why wouldn’t you believe him? Good book though. Anyways, yes, athletes are treated nicely and have their own facility for tutoring in the recently built Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence. It’s not really anything unique to Duke - pretty standard among elite D1 athletic universities.</p>

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<p>They always get the 1st registration window since they have to plan their classes around practice.</p>

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<p>I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University, closely modeled after Duke University and Stanford University. Wolfe researched the novel by talking to students at Duke, Stanford, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. </p>

<p>And in an interview he did state he modeled it after Duke, if you actually read the book you will see Duke very clearly in the Gothic architechture, the basketball stadium, and the many other aspects.</p>

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<p>As an athlete going to Duke, we get (besides the athletic facilities) a library and tutoring exclusively for us. Most colleges do that so Duke is not special in that regard.</p>

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<p>I think the housing is different for some of them (guaranteed air conditioning or different size rooms). It really depends on the team also since basketball gets more benefits than the less popular/profitable teams.</p>

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<p>Athletes also get tons of equipment and stuff from sponsors but that’s pretty much standard at most schools so nothing to write home about.</p>