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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you for the feedback. I’m not looking at this from an admissions pov, fwiw. I went to a SLAC that had no sports culture (at least as far as I could tell!) and was surprised to hear how many SLACs *do* care about athletics.

I thrived in a purely “academic” environment—it was uniformly rigorous with no easy alternatives to tough courses and everyone was all in on the intellectualism, which helped us push ourselves and support each other. I’m sure it sounds pretentious but I loved it. It’s not that I would cross other schools off the list—I just want to understand the landscape in case DCs turn out to be like me. [/quote]

I went to Northwestern, a Big 10 school so lots of credit for athletics.

I never went to a game, almost none of my friends went to games. I couldn't have told you if they won or lost any specific games. The only varsity athlete I knew was a fencer who was in one of my classes.  I also had some friends in the croquet club.

I don't know what easy alternatives have to do with any of this.  Athletes at the top schools have to meet he same academic criteria.

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And all the Ivies.  But keep believing what you want to believe.

This is untrue except at MIT and CalTech[/quote][/quote]

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