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Anonymous wrote:kinda hate this term, and that it's used derogatorily to describe non-athletes. Schools which foster such strong athlete/non-athlete divides should reconsider what they're doing

Whether or not you like the term NARP, the divide is very rael at many--probably most--LACs/SLACs. Certainly the case at Middlebury & Amherst & Williams--although some experiences may be different.

It wasn't the case at my midwestern SLAC.

Meaningless without the name of the college.

I never heard of a NARP before but that describes my kid who is looking at SLACs.

Can we start naming names? Name SLACs that are good for NARPs and don't have the divide. Name SLACs that have the divide. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:kinda hate this term, and that it's used derogatorily to describe non-athletes. Schools which foster such strong athlete/non-athlete divides should reconsider what they're doing

Whether or not you like the term NARP, the divide is very rael at many--probably most--LACs/SLACs. Certainly the case at Middlebury & Amherst & Williams--although some experiences may be different.

It wasn't the case at my midwestern SLAC.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is an athlete who just went through the recruiting process and looked at a lot of D3 SLACs. At many schools, the athlete/non-athlete divide was very apparent, which was something my kid was trying to avoid. Bowdoin was the school that, in my kid’s view, had a much more integrated student body with a lot of athlete/non-athlete crossover (esp compared to Williams & Amherst).

This is very interesting about Bowdoin. My son's very close friend is a Soph at Bowdoin and looking to transfer out this year because he feels the school feels too small, partly due to the divide between athletes and non athletes.

With or without a divide between athletes and non-athletes, Bowdoin is too small.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is an athlete who just went through the recruiting process and looked at a lot of D3 SLACs. At many schools, the athlete/non-athlete divide was very apparent, which was something my kid was trying to avoid. Bowdoin was the school that, in my kid’s view, had a much more integrated student body with a lot of athlete/non-athlete crossover (esp compared to Williams & Amherst).

This is very interesting about Bowdoin. My son's very close friend is a Soph at Bowdoin and looking to transfer out this year because he feels the school feels too small, partly due to the divide between athletes and non athletes.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is an athlete who just went through the recruiting process and looked at a lot of D3 SLACs. At many schools, the athlete/non-athlete divide was very apparent, which was something my kid was trying to avoid. Bowdoin was the school that, in my kid’s view, had a much more integrated student body with a lot of athlete/non-athlete crossover (esp compared to Williams & Amherst).

Again, the above is accurate. If I may ask, where did your son or daughter enroll ?

Any other thoughts that you would like to share about any schools visited. (I ask because you appear to have both commonsense & mature insights.)

Anonymous wrote:My kid is an athlete who just went through the recruiting process and looked at a lot of D3 SLACs. At many schools, the athlete/non-athlete divide was very apparent, which was something my kid was trying to avoid. Bowdoin was the school that, in my kid’s view, had a much more integrated student body with a lot of athlete/non-athlete crossover (esp compared to Williams & Amherst).

This post is spot-on correct.

My kid is an athlete who just went through the recruiting process and looked at a lot of D3 SLACs. At many schools, the athlete/non-athlete divide was very apparent, which was something my kid was trying to avoid. Bowdoin was the school that, in my kid’s view, had a much more integrated student body with a lot of athlete/non-athlete crossover (esp compared to Williams & Amherst).

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Anonymous wrote:I learned a new acronym today.

Every kid uses this term

But not seriously. They use it as a joke, or ironically. I know very few kids who would use the term seriously, like OP did.

Disagree.
It’s how kids sep athletes from non-athletes. Two very distinct groups.

I don’t think you’ve been on a campus for a long time? This is not really how kids talk now on campus. It is how adults who went to school in the 1990s and 2000s talk, though. Sometimes I feel like parents have adopted the NARP term but don’t understand how kids on campus use it now.

Kids definitely refer to themselves as NARPs, but not as a serious reference. The only time it’s used seriously is for athletes who quit or are injured and are struggling. Then, yes, it’s serious.

Kids use. Sometimes seriously. But mostly not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I learned a new acronym today.

Every kid uses this term

But not seriously. They use it as a joke, or ironically. I know very few kids who would use the term seriously, like OP did.

Disagree.
It’s how kids sep athletes from non-athletes. Two very distinct groups.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I learned a new acronym today.

Every kid uses this term

But not seriously. They use it as a joke, or ironically. I know very few kids who would use the term seriously, like OP did.

Anonymous wrote:I learned a new acronym today.

Every kid uses this term

Yeah, who do you think automatically gets the dorm rooms with a/c at schools where a lot of the freshman dorms don’t have a/c…

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Anonymous wrote:Watch out for the schools where the athletes have their own dining facilities, gym and/or mostly take up their own dorms. At small schools, if the athletes are so sequestered together, it makes the school seem so much smaller to non-athletes.

We toured two SLACS where they specifically highlighted how they are trying to fight this problem.

Do any SLAC/D3 schools do things this way? My son is looking to play his sport D3 and we haven’t seen anything like separate dorms or dining facilities. (Athletic facilities yes)

Same with us. We've seen varsity weight rooms (although many D3s have just one facility for everyone, with the teams having reserved times and open weightlifting classes for others to ensure no one is lifting unsupervised), but we've never seen dining facilities where hot breakfasts are only for athletes on weekends and we've never seen separate dorms or teams together on a single floor. Some schools even make an effort to ensure coaches don't try to finagle the room assignment system for first years to get teammates rooming together (D1 Colgate does this too).