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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Williams alum who played a varsity sport.  I was also on the editorial staff of the newspaper and worked in admissions.  Athletics is a big part of life at Williams and really draws the student body together.  There are certainly many Williams students who don't play sports, but the school will always draw lots of applicants who were high school athletes and who want to continue playing in college.  And, yes, as many posters have noted, these applicants have other accomplishments and interests that they bring to the college community.        [/quote]

As someone who worked in the admissions office, could share share with the board some of things you looked for in applicants besides sport particiaption?  [/quote]

A PP here from a couple of pages ago.

If the PP answers this question, he/she is better person than I am.  I have 2 kids in college (one is an athlete and the other is not) and it is insulting some of the assumptions people here are making about student athletes – especially D3 athletes.  Frankly, it reeks of misinformation and sour grapes.  At about this time every year around the acceptance period, people get on here and complain about how recruited athletes get an unfair advantage, ruining higher education, blah blah. Well, Williams and Amherst have big sports and arts vibes and it has been that way for a while.  That is the way it is and it seems to working for them and the students that matriculate there.  If you do not like that aspect of those schools, go to College Confidential and research top SLACs that do not have a big sports presence on campus – there are plenty of them.   Apply to those schools and call it a day.  But please stop sermonizing about it. 
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