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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the poster that suggested Michigan and Wisconsin. Good, large universities have few recruited athletes compared to the general student body. I also know that Reed doesn’t have any varsity sports if that’s your cup of tea. I went to Kalamazoo and athletes were just as smart as non-athletes. This may the case at schools with &gt;50% acceptance rates.[/quote]

Many top donors at elite schools are athletes (for example, Arrillaga at Stanford and the Kochs at MIT were all basketball players). What some people struggle with are admissions profiles with lower test scores or lower GPAs, even with an EC that the school is clamoring for.

Michigan and Wisconsin are examples of schools that admit athletes with different score/GPA combos and also have sports as central to a lot of campus life (football, basketball, and hockey all draw a lot of student fans and tailgating is a big deal). At large schools, you absolutely can find your own place outside of that sports culture but those two have a lot of athletic pride. Rice and Vandy are good D1 private schools where students care less. On the large state school front, Berkeley stands out as one where students don't care much unless the opponent is Stanford (much less sports oriented culture wise than Wisco or UM). Maryland looks like a fairly happy medium where some care and attendance is ok but it isn't the biggest deal.[/quote]

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