<p>I was researching Amherst, and saw that many students have commented that sports tend ti influence the social scene. Is that true? If so, how does this affect students who do not participate in sports at all?</p>
<p>I can only comment indirectly. My son signed up for a number of extracurricular activities. None were recruited varsity sports. One was athletic. All of the activities he signed up for seem to have parties and social events. So do sports teams. So, I think there is some segregation in socializing by activity (including the athletic teams). When I asked my son about it, he thought he could join his athlete-roommate at the roommate’s parties if he wanted to, but generally wouldn’t want to. He seems happy with the social life as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>Yes, this is true. (Current Senior) The social scene revolves heavily around the teams many of us belong to. In part that’s due to things like schedule, etc. The parties are often thrown by teams, but obviously given the nature of the campus (really small) people just show up and it’s no big deal.</p>
<p>It doesn’t impact your social life too much - though you won’t have the natural group of people to associated with immediately as athletes tend to, but you’ll find people on the floor you live on that you like etc.</p>