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[quote=Anonymous]Mac is not a pressure-cooker school but is far more focused on things like study abroad, service projects, field work, etc. Academically it is probably a good fit. Culturally, sports are really not dominant at all. So if your kid is used to athletics being really centered, that’s not what he will find. He’ll be in a very small group of fellow athletes. But Mac is also not a judgmental place, so nobody will hold it against him. It’s just that athletics has no prestige and is not the center of campus social life.  Like, the school is going to coalesce around a kid that comes up with a nonprofit that gets Somali immigrant girls swim lessons; not the kid who wins the swim meets!

But maybe that makes it all around a healthier environment for him?

By way of closure I’ll relay the Mac football cheer from my time there “Drink blood, smoke crack, worship Satan, go Mac!”

https://themacweekly.com/65626/sports/20-years-and-stronger-than-ever-drink-blood-smoke-crack-creator-revitalizes-quirky-cheers-in-soccer-stands/[/quote]

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