<p>If you want to play football while focusing seriously on academics, note that most quarter system schools have the football season overlapping with one third of the academic year, while semester system schools have the football season overlapping with one half of the academic year (however, a few quarter system schools split the winter quarter around the winter break, causing the football season to overlap with one half of the academic year instead of one third).</p>
<p>This could be significant in that being at a quarter system school means that you can spread your “hard” classes (including pre-med courses with time consuming labs) in two thirds of the academic year (winter and spring quarters), instead of trying to get them all into one half of the academic year (spring semester) or taking more of them during football season.</p>
<p>List of quarter system schools: <a href=“Quarter System and Block Plan Colleges and Universities”>http://www.planetbauer.com/colleges.htm</a></p>