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[quote=Anonymous]"        So in a school of 1500, 600 of them are athletes? Are there that many sports??

I'm actually surprised it isn't higher. This doesn't need to be football-- it can be bowling, ultimate Frisbee, quidditch. I think every body should engage in some kind of athletics as much as possible.

Some of that is just recreational. It's not the same as playing football or field hockey in terms of commitment, culture, jockishness is it?"

Amherst has 12 mens sports (but football has twice as many athletes) and 13 womens or 600/26 = 23 per sport with 46 for football (low?).

I and my two kids went to schools kind of like those listed but they were/are larger.

In my opinion, the estimate of 40% is low but the definition of athlete is really hard to pin down.

Those quidditch and ultimate players were soccer captains and/or starting HS pitchers in HS.

In terms of the OP's question, the 40-50% athletes most likely don't matter to her DC's social life because her DC has a similar activity like theater or band or outdoors club or the school paper or radio station.

If DC doesn't have any similar activity and has just studied all through HS, that will actually work better than it has in HS because Amherst also has a group that spends all their time working with professors.

The key is that ALL of these groups need to be inclusive with each other over the 4 years or they will drive each other crazy.

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