<p>“Athletes versus mathletes, I presume.”</p>
<p>That would be an incorrect presumption. We had athletes, too. Some very good ones (who became Rhodes Scholars). They didn’t get in. To be honest (and mind you, this is a long time ago), the assumption was that we shouldn’t bother to apply. That was true at my alma mater as well (I was the first who came in a long while), and it changed (slowly), among other reasons, because a math professor - an alum of my high school - had became dean of the college, and he shared our common “persuasion”. </p>
<p>Cobrat, you were probably about 3-4 years later than me.</p>