It’s really not quite that bad bc at William’s quite a few kids play 2 sports (track and track or winter & spring track or all 3, or field hockey & lacrosse, etc) |
as you can see on the OPE.ed site, this is accounted for. duplicated and unduplicated. |
745 is the unduplicated count. (904 total participants on teams) |
For no athletes, unhinged antifa protestors, and lots of drug use, hard and soft, go to Reed! Great professors, super-woke and often crazy students, all in a city (Portland, OR) that has the highest drug overdose rate in the nation. What could be better?! |
OP, PP has good advice. Know too many kids who basically pivoted from one peer school to another rather than aiming at a "lower" ED2. It didn't work out for any of them. |
I know it’s changed (I think harder to get in) but I’m a non-legacy non-recruited athlete who went to Williams. I was admitted ED. Same story for my closest friend from college. We met playing JV field hockey freshman year but otherwise didn’t do organized sports and definitely weren’t recruited. I forget who among my closest friends (a group of about 14 of us - guys and girls) got in early, but most didn’t do a sport (beyond the required PE credits) and I think only 1-2 of the few who played a sport were good enough to have potentially been recruited for their sport. I also married a non-athlete classmate, but he did not apply early.
When I was accepted years ago my guidance counselor did say “what?!?! But you’re not even a legacy or an athlete?” But she also tried to change something on my admission essay because she was convinced it couldn’t be true when it was true, so I didn’t place too much weight in her opinions anyway. It’s possible to do! |
Is this still true, though? Recruitment today seems like a much, much bigger deal — and the walk-on experience far less common — than it was a generation ago. |
Sooo many athletes at Williams now
Comparing anything to “our day” is nuts |