Williams/Amherst over a HYP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you with straight males at SLACs who aren't D3 athletes, were your sons on any varsity sports teams in high school? My son is unlikely to be recruited by a high academic school, but a lot of his high school identity is wrapped up being a competitive Soccer and Track athlete. At a big school, he will have plenty of company and can enjoy intramurals and spectating D1 sports, but at a small school I wonder if he will feel excluded from his peers with similar interests.

DC didn't do any sports in high school and is now at a D3 SLAC not playing any sports either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NARP?

NARP, non-athlete regular person, is a derogatory term used by athletes to refer to non-athletes at prestigious NE LACs such as Middlebury and Amherst.

We NARPs call ourselves that too, thank you very much 🙄

It started at Middlebury and was used there in a derogatory fashion, but now it's just another word.

Ya got a source for that?

[Anonymous]

I am 100% OK with the term NARP, but if anything, I would actually find it more derogatory towards the athletes than the NARPs.