<p>I’ve visited midd, I liked it, they are known for languages, I want to teach. I’m sure that no matter what the student body is like, it would be a great experience.</p>
<p>buddyglass–20% of Swarthmore students play on a varsity team; 27% play of Middlebury students play on a varsity team (the NCAA requires these annual statistics). That means 73% of Middlebury students are not athletes and 80% of Swatties are not as well.</p>
<p>I should have written “varsity” athletes. Many students at both colleges are “athletes” but not varsity athletes.</p>
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<p>Yeah, but what percentage of those athletes only play Quidditch? lol! In all seriousness, your numbers are WAY off.</p>
<p>i take it back then: it was probably my seething sense of physical inadequacy that led me to consider every 6 instead of 2.7 people out of ten an athlete and my grandiosity that led me to believe no one else was intellectual.</p>
<p>Or some other inadequacy, perhaps. 60% vs 27% is quite a difference.</p>
<p>It’s called “BU”. UB is in Buffalo, NY.
I’d say yes to that. But why would you want to go there? Except that it’s in Boston…</p>
<p>it’s a very, very fit campus, so overestimating the number of athletes- even to the extent that i did- is not the hardest mistake to make. i probably would have guessed that 40 to 50 percent of students played a sport if a gun was held to my head; i was definitely exaggerating a bit for effect. if you add the 28 percent of students on a varsity team- i looked it up; it’s 28, not 27; which seems trivial as hell to mention but represents an extra 25 people on campus- to the percent that play a club or intramural sport or ski regularly, my figure is probably pretty accurate if not well short of the true mark. (middlebury has the top club rugby team in the country, incidentally.) </p>
<p>300 of swarthmore’s 1500 students play a sport. they dont have a football team. their teams are significantly less competitive than middlebury’s. (i read an article on espn explaining that midd was the second most dominant d3 program in the country after williams, its nescac rival). </p>
<p>but i am sorry for providing false information about your school. i love middlebury.</p>
<p>and i do have many other inadequacies, including but not limited to a skinny weiner and a propensity to waste time on this board.</p>