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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At NESCAC schools it can make the school feel even smaller, for better or for worse. It’s a problem even at Ivies where there aren’t differentiated meal plans and there aren’t athletic scholarships. It also can create a school-within-a-school vibe that isn’t pleasant. A large proportion of the student body ends up being athletes because of the vast amount of varsity sports offered, and they tend to socialize together because of the time commitments of their sports. Each team gets multiple admits per year who are guaranteed admission outside of the regular admissions process. Even 2-3 of these “likelies” per team means that your class has hundreds of kids in it who were in their own, less rigorous admission process. Those students have dedicated workout facilities, their own access to things like weekend hot breakfast or extended dinner hours, special policies for missing academic obligations, and guess what? You’re paying the same tuition and room and board as them but get less. My then-freshman  once showed up at early breakfast on a weekend and got screamed at by an assistant coach because the hot breakfast foods were only for game day athletes! It was the only place to eat early breakfast and he had no way of knowing that the hot line was athletes-only.

So it’s kind of sucky to be a NARP if athletes are pretty integrated into the student body and it’s a small school. The real winners are the ones who use their sport for admissions and then become a NARP![/quote]

The admissions process for athletes at NESCAC is not "less rigorous". You are not "guaranteed admission". These athletes are not somehow "gaming the system" by "using their sport for admission" and then quitting. Enough with these stupid falsehoods.

The kids who do quit most likely quit due to an injury, and they are not happy about it. They put years of effort into their sport, they love it, and they actually want to play.[/quote]

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