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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  My impression is that athletes at Williams College and at many SLACs are the happiest students and that social divides exist at many SLACs between athletes and non-athletes.

SLACs are great for two sport athletes. Isolation is countered by travel for competitions and close camaraderie among teammates.  [/quote]

Nope.  My friends -- all non-athletes -- who are recent Williams grads and loved it have never cited this (or anything remotely like this) as an issue.

I'm not saying it's garbage, necessarily, but it does smack of someone casting about to try to find an overly simplistic (and inaccurate) way to categorize the differences between thousands of diverse colleges and universities out there.

Coupled with DCUM's chronic class paranoia that "they" -- the wealthier, the more gregarious, the more athletic -- are out there having more effortless fun than poor pressured DC who's been strategizing for college applications since turning 13.  [/quote]

Your friends may have loved their time at Williams, but also may have experienced or recognize the athlete/narp divide and just not cared for whatever reason. It is real at Williams, Amherst, Midd, etc. Don’t know about Wellesley. [/quote]

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