<p>Can you please share how you balance academics and a varsity sport...
particularly if you are in a heavy science/engineering major with lots of hours in labs etc.</p>
<p>Is it possible to do both well?</p>
<p>If you don't mind--please indicate sport and or major--just for the sake of comparision.
...meaning
am practice vs pm practice
need to travel for competition
if you travel for competition--do you have Fri off from class or how do you handle missing lab, p-sets etc etc?</p>
<p>I’m not certain you’ll get the kind of first-hand information you’re looking for on CC. If your son is being recruited, can’t he ask the coach to put him in touch with a current team member?</p>
<p>You know which semesters require more out of you so you plan accordingly. My roomie was a Bio major and played hockey. Two guys across the hall, both varsity footballers (starters their senior year), were science majors – one eventually going to Med School.</p>
<p>Several of my roomies were rowers – they have extensive practice almost all year! They balanced it out. Not science majors but went onto Law schools and Wall street.</p>
<p>It’s doable, you just have to plan ahead. Coaches realize that you have classes and stuff you need to keep up with, so some designate “lab days” which are days where no pm practices are scheduled so that you can take your 3/4/5 hour labs.</p>
<p>Stay organized and prepared, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>yes… But in general, the Greek scene isn’t that prevalent on campus. But I do recall some guys in the frats. I believe the two main sororities didn’t really attract many athlete-types — it may have changed though.</p>
<p>Yes, in fact many, if not most, athletes (males, at least) are in fraternities. Most girls in sororities are not athletes. Certain fraternities are known as “sports fraternities,” like AEPi (Lax), Zeta (football) and Sigma Nu (soccer). If you don’t fit into any of these sports, you can find the fraternity at which you feel most comfortable and rush/pledge. See what happens.</p>
<p>The fraternity scene isn’t THAT dormant. We are somewhat of a presence on campus. Again, it’ll depend on who you speak to, but nowadays, fraternities are doing pretty well and they’re beginning to constitute a large portion of the social scene at Yale. They don’t, however, hold a monopoly because people are always throwing parties in their rooms or the acappella groups throw parties in their houses.</p>
<p>No “rowing” fraternity. I know of someone doing crew who is in ADPhi (which is the Lax frat, got it mixed up above).</p>
<p>These aren’t stringent requirements. Rather, it’s more of a convention. Most football players are in Zeta, so when you join the football team and most of your friends are football players, then you are more likely to join Zeta. But you don’t have to. There are football players in SAE and such.</p>