Senior Sarah Raulli will appear on Wheel of Fortune Friday, the second of three university students picked this year to be a contestant on the game show.
The episode will air New Year's Day at 7:30 p.m. on ABC.
Raulli said last month that she has always watched Wheel of Fortune, but started making it an evening event with her roommate.
"We used to always make dinner together and watch Wheel of Fortune," Raulli said. "We would joke around that we were always better than the people on the show and that we should win the money."
She applied for the show online and then did a live audition in New York in May. She flew to Los Angeles in November to film the show.
"It was different than what I expected," Raulli said. "When I got on set it was surreal. The wheel was smaller than I pictured but still really heavy, and although the set is big, it seems bigger on TV."
In November, senior Chris Gage won $40,550 in cash and prizes on Wheel of Fortune. Sophomore Charles Wallace will appear in an episode that airs March 17.
In an interview last month, Raulli didn't want to divulge the results of her game.
"I will tell you that you don't know who will win overall until the very end. It's not a clear cut thing," she said. "My parents said it was one of the most fun shows filmed that day."
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