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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny thread. People keep mentioning schools with “only” 20% athletes (usually even these schools are at least 25%).

The answer is simple, and these are two great schools:

Reed College
St. John’s College[/quote]

I think this is missing the mark.  This is a boy who wants to hang [b]out with other normal boys.  The problem is at many LACs, almost all the normal boys are on sports teams which leaves him to fend for himself among the overwhelmingly abnormal male NARPs.  The answer is NOT to attend Reed College which consists entirely of abnormal NARPs.[/quote]
If it is a SLAC, these are the schools. Oh, yes, Bennington also. (Hampshire has some varsity sports but the percentage of athletes is tiny there).

There are many, many options of large schools with way under 10% varsity athletes; OP should look there.

It is very easy to avoid schools with 20-40% student athletes. That’s not missing the mark, but hitting it.[/quote]

“Normal boys”.  Who are you to say what a normal or abnormal boy is?  Be better a person.[/quote]

I know it sounds mean, but it’s just a reality. Put yourself in the shoes of a young man who doesn’t want to find himself entirely surrounded by lgbtq/social justice types with strange interests. [/quote]

This is not the reality though. It's a cartoon.  OP--just visit LACs and find out.[/quote]

Yet there is truth to it because the kids write about it in the school paper and talk about it and my own kid tells me about it and he's not crazy or intolerant or evil. To put it simply, LACs have an elevated proportion of varsity athletes versus other schools (especially large universities) but also have an elevated proportion of quirky intellectual/creative/activist/future PhD types because they are a natural habitat for such students. Those are two subgroups that don't necessarily tend to have a lot of natural social overlap in real life. This is compounded by the explosive growth in recent years of diverse gender identities. [/quote]

OK, but do you think that intellectuals, creative people, activists, and scholars are weird? I don’t think so. And if your son think so, I’m surprised that he’s happy at any university. [/quote]

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