<p>Cheers, best of luck in helping out. As far as diversity of residence though, depending on the sport, that might be attained through international competition in the sport. That would be true in individual sports I guess more than the team sports--i.e., international competitions in gymnastics, track and field, tennis, golf, etc. </p>
<p>Indeed, with D1 scholarship athletes, honestly most of their time really is spent with their teammates. At Stanford the school specifically does not place athletes together as roommates in the first , but at Cal they do at least some of the time, and after that most of the team ends up rooming together in various groups, as it just works out better with the intense schedule, etc. The athletes on the team travel together, eat together, work out together, and seem to hang out together too. I know that a lot of schools are heavily recruiting their athletes from overseas, so in fact that might really not be a distinction between the two schools.</p>
<p>Agreed of course on class size and the overall feel of being on a smaller campus. </p>
<p>Don't know about the stat. UCLA might be up there too. And, if for example it were an Olympic sport and the Cal coach happens to have been involved with the Olympics in that sport and not the Stanford coach, or vice versa, that too obviously would be a big selling point for one or the other. Google it?</p>