Schools with Rigorous Academics and Big Sports Culture

[Anonymous]

DD is just starting to put a college list together. She's a really driven kid - works extremely hard (school) and plays even harder (plays multiple sports and watches/follows college/pro teams in her free time).

She's looking for campus-focused (not city) schools that would be a good fit - basically with kids who share her academic drive and love of sports.

So far we've got Duke, Michigan, and maybe Northwestern. Other ideas? Are there any Ivys or DIII schools that are particularly sports-focused - like where the whole school gets into it? She really likes the rah-rah school spirit stuff.

[Anonymous]

Does she want to play or just watch?

I’d add Stanford, UNC, look at other state flagships.

[Anonymous]

Recent thread on this (at least related to SLACs): https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1051864.page

[Anonymous]

UT Austin and Texas A&M

[Anonymous]

Notes Dame

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Boston College
Notre Dame
USC

[Anonymous]

I really don’t understand the term “rigorous academics.” It completely depends on the child’s major. A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UT Austin and Texas A&M

Lol no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she want to play or just watch?

I’d add Stanford, UNC, look at other state flagships.

Depends where she goes.

She's not good enough to play at the D1 schools that are Top 20 in her sport (Duke, UNC, Stanford etc.), so she's leaning towards playing club. Or maybe for the "real" team if she goes to a DIII school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she want to play or just watch?

I’d add Stanford, UNC, look at other state flagships.

State flagships are massive mills—no “rigor” there unless you mean deciding whose going to win beer pong.

[Anonymous]

A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

Are you high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she want to play or just watch?

I’d add Stanford, UNC, look at other state flagships.

State flagships are massive mills—no “rigor” there unless you mean deciding whose going to win beer pong.

UVA? Berkeley? UNC? Michigan? Texas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the term “rigorous academics.” It completely depends on the child’s major. A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

Tell us you didn’t go to Yale without telling us you didn’t go to Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

Are you high?

She’s right. Speaking as someone who did humanities degrees and engineering degrees at elite schools and less elite schools, she’s absolutely correct. Your rejoinder makes me think you are a status-obsessed college confidential kid, because you clearly have no real-world experience.

People at elite schools in majors like sociology like to believe they are rigorous, I’ll give you that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the term “rigorous academics.” It completely depends on the child’s major. A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

Tell us you didn’t go to Yale without telling us you didn’t go to Yale.

I went to Stanford and it’s true.