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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LACs and SLACs can be appealing for lots of students. However... outside of Williams, Amherst, and maybe Pomona and Swarthmore, every non-recruited athlete straight male is thinking - is there a place for me here? And often the answer is no.

These are tiny schools. And the vibe is generally very rejective of straight non-athlete males. And for 17 year old boys that is a very big deal. LACS/SLACS aren't getting these guys anymore. It's a problem. [/quote]
Utter nonsense.[/quote]

NP. I don't think it is nonsense. I'm looking at my kid's WASP class list and [b]a huge percentage (seems like at least 70%) of the boys, in particular, are athletes.[/b] SO MANY. Not sure how my NARP boy will feel socially, but my guess is he'll find his nice, nerdy little tribe. We'll see.[/quote]

It is flat out false, either you are making things up or you can't count. Let me help out.

All four SWAT schools have a higher male/female proportion than UNC which is 40/60
Three of them are better than UVA which is 43/57 (Amherst is about the same)
Two of them are better than UMich which is 47/53

Overall the top SLACS have better M/F ratios than most schools (because those ratios hold further down the list as well).

As to the second part.

The athletes are in the same proportion as the school (little thing called Title IX) for the most part so they don't skew the proportions at all and overall you can use 33% to get a rough sense of the number of athletes.

So we know that the schools aren't skewed in gender ratios, they are better than large state schools
So we know that the athletes aren't overrepresented in terms of males because Title IX prevents it which means:

[b]Two thirds of the kids are NARPs making almost one third of the school population NARP boys[/b]. Are you trying to imply that a huge population of NARPs are gay and thus your little NARP child will feel out of place?

That assertion isn't nonsense, it is beyond nonsense.[/quote]

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