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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry to be on topic for a bit but DC just got a brochure in the mail from Williams that said that 35% of the students are in Varsity, JV and Club Sports.  So figure that club and JV athletes are not recruited, and there will be some who walk on to varsity sports (we know some), so the actual percent of athletic recruits must be WAY lower than 40%.  That makes more sense to me - at least 4-5 kids go there every year from DCs school and only one that I know of was an athletic recruit.  She also happened to be an NMSF and a 4.0 student so I don't think she diluted the talent pool there.[/quote]

Thank you for this.  The 40% number is absurd on its face.  Williams has about 2,000 students at any given time.  There's no way that 800 of those were "athletic recruits" in any meaningful sense.  Because Williams offers no athletic scholarships, all of its varsity athletes are technically walk-ons.  But even the number of student-athletes who are formally recruited in some way and given a preference in admissions is much lower than 40%.  It's more on the order of 10-15%.

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