<p>Please tell me it doesn't. So many colleges do, and I've had enough of athletes and their sense of self-importance in high school.</p>
<p>Reed does not.</p>
<p>Thanks! That’s what I thought. I could not find any indication of athletic recruitment at Reed. I exercise and am in decent shape, but I hate the glorification of athletes in high school and want to avoid it in college.</p>
<p>Don’t throw out the champagne with the cork. There are plenty of schools that recruit for athletics but do not have a hero-worship culture around athletes. </p>
<p>Colleges in general have a society that is more pluralistic than monolithic. So even at an NCAA Division I campus, you’re not necessarily stuck on a single hill that has a preordained king. People are celebrated for a wide variety of achievements. You become the king of your own hill(s).</p>
<p>I don’t quite understand why you went to the effort of looking through Reed’s website for their policy on athletic recruitment and starting this thread… Like, what is the point of it? I think you should try to channel your anger at “athletes and their sense of self-importance in high school” into something more productive.</p>
<p>Reed doesn’t have varsity athletics, nor do they give out aid/scholarships for things other than financial need.</p>