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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I currently know 2 kids at Amherst and 3 at Williams. All 5 are recruited athletes. This is stark to me compared to other schools. Are non-athletes separate socially or do they interact and integrate?[/quote] In Selingo's book, Who Gets in and Why, one of the most striking points he made was that at SLACs, athletes often make up a larger fraction of the population than at large universities. Schools with much smaller student bodies still need the same number of football players to field a team. He gave a specific example that's perhaps especially pertinent to this thread: Amherst College (undergrad pop:<2,000) has more athletes than the University of Alabama (undergrad pop:~32,000). So yes, recruited athletes tend to make up a large fraction of the student body at selective SLACs![/quote] This is not surprising at all. Schools that are much smaller still need about the same number of athletes to fill their team rosters. [/quote]
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