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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC was an athlete recent grad - had a great experience, but the athlete divide is real.  He was able to make some good non-jock friends but he said the majority of teammates (helmet sport) rarely spoke to (or interacted with) non athletes in their 4 years on campus. They party with the same girls team every week, sit with themselves at dinner every night (all year not just in season), and take the same classes together.  Hard pass for younger siblings based on this social divide [/quote]

I feel like this is typical lots of places, especially SLAC's. Truth be told, I think it's reduced at Wesleyan because of the relatively large size and the general non-sports-bro vibe. Never heard discussions of the divide between athletes and NARPs at Wesleyan ("non-athlete regular people") like I have at Amherst and Middlebury.[/quote]

As the parent of an athlete at Middlebury whose best friend and roommate is a ‘NARP’ I will say that the athlete/NARP divide at Middlebury exists mainly in the minds of people here on DCUM. The larger teams do tend to stick together more than the smaller ones but aside from ‘pre-game’ the parties are open to all. Different groups with common interests tend to hang together just like anywhere else but nobody is excluded.[/quote]

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