Question About The British Athletics League

What English/Scottish universities have the best athletics (track & field) programs?

Are you asking the question in the sense of an American college athletics program? British universities don't do sports in the same way that American colleges do, there's no such things as an athletics program in a British university in the American sense. The level in a British university would be somewhat similar to intramural in an American college at best.In in saying that, Loughborough university does have a strong athletics focuts as they specialise in sports science and a large number of international and Olympic level UK athletes have trained there though not necessarily as a student. Loughborough would definitely be the best place in Britain for athletics on a university campus.

Should athletes be held to the same academic college admission standards as other applicants?

No. You don’t understand.My friend from high school now runs track for a certain college in California, one whose admission committee many of you, probably, would sacrifice your firstborn to to get in. She’s really, really good. She went to the semifinals of the Olympic trials when she was 17.She’s intelligent, but she didn’t necessarily “excel” in high school per se in the way most students there might’ve— she certainly wasn’t loading up with APs or the like. This was not because she couldn’t have handled the material, but because she was kinda busy with training to run in, ya know, the freaking Olympics.Heckuva lot busier than me, I’d say… even when I was trying to get state/national-type music accolades (which I think I got some academic leeway for too, btw). Certainly busy enough that we started seeing much less of her, except at track practice.I know yall busted your bums to win the state quiz bowl or whatever but trust me when I say it’s just. Not. The. Same. You never really see much of the lives of athletes at that level; ever wondered why?She got in not because she took some special shortcut, but because she focused her efforts on what the program in question was looking for— just like I, to much lesser degrees, sometimes focused on my music portfolio over my grades because I gathered the colleges I wanted to would be happy. She deserved every penny. She’ll excel there. Be happy for her.

What are the Ivy League universities in the US? What are the unique qualities that make you want to attend one of these universities?

Ivy League is a college sports conference. What they all have in common is that they don't award any athletic scholarship. Although, because of their wealth, these schools provide excellent facilities and resources for their students, in most big college sports--like football or basketball--they do not attract the best young athletes in the country. So, even if they participate in Division I sports, they do not serve as a pipline into the pros. A fairly simple illustration is this. If you were Jeremy Lin, and you were given the choice between Harvard and Kentucky (with a full-ride as a starter) coming out as Mr. Basketball of California, you would definitely have chosen to attend Kentucky, which is otherwise a middling state school. Given such a choice, if you're Jeremy Lin, an Ivy League school would have been near the bottom of your list. So not everyone feels compelled to attend even if accepted. Otherwise, the Ivy League schools are some of the oldest universities and colleges in the United States, and they modelled themselves after the British elite system, since the US has retained a lot of the British class system. Regardless of their academic excellence (and they are academically always among the best in the world on any metric), there is also the sheen of prestige that goes along with being an alumnus of one of these institutions. If you are prestige-conscious, and most folks who grew up in any rigid class-based society like the US tend to be prestige-conscious, then it's the prestige that is so compelling. And such prestige does pay a lifetime's worth of dividends, especially in sectors like finance and law, and academia.

How would modern athletes fare if they competed in the future?

Its tough to tell, but I have two theories:Progressive Evolution: Humans are still getting bigger, faster, and stronger, and today's Modern Athletes in general would not fare quite as well. Sure, the greatest of the generation would still be great 20–50 years Into the future, but not quite as good as they are in this time period. Usain Bolt would still be able to run with the top 20 in the world, but he wouldn't be the absolute best. LeBron james would still be a very good basketball player, but not the best player on the planet. It helps that these players would also get to Benefit from the futures technology and more effective training methodsdevolution: humans are getting fatter, lazier, softer, and slower as time goes on because currently a solid portion of the world gets everything handed to them in return for sitting at a computer. Diets are getting worse, people are getting less exercise. Think of the Disney Movie Wall E… If this theory of modern evolution is any bit accurate, modern athletes would be much more dominant Against future competiton.

Is Oxbridge or the Ivy League a better choice for postgraduate studies in business or engineering?

I’d say it depends where you want to work. Oxbridge is the Ivy League of the U.K., Europe, and, some would say, the rest of the world (although there are many amazing schools in Asia as well).An Oxbridge degree will open up many jobs around Europe. An Ivy League degree will open up many jobs in the U.S., mostly in the geographical area of the particular university but also in other major cities around the U.S. (e.g., even if you went to Yale, many will still get jobs in San Francisco or Los Angeles).I learned this while at Oxford. It was not easy to convert that into a job in the U.S., despite the overall prestige of the degree. The reason being is simple: yes, a degree from Oxford is prestigious. But if you’re a company recruiting in Boston, you have Harvard and MIT to recruit from. You don’t need to spend the extra money to go all the way across the pond to get someone with a prestigious degree. That is, of course, assuming you don’t want someone with a really elegant accent that will impress clients—few Americans are immune from loving British accents.

What school should be in the Ivy League but isn't?

NoneIt is The Ivy Athletic League and the eight colleges with similar interests in education and NCAA D-1 winning sports are what make it The Ivy Athletic League.There are No other private colleges in that Northeastern part of the USA that have that Same philosophy.The small ones that play NCAA D-3 sports banned together as part of the NESCAC or the UAA.The “wanna bes” were smaller and formed the Patriot League, but finally acquiesced and started awarding athletic scholarships in order to survive and to attract BU to join.You have to know your Sports and there aren’t any that fit the bill.Indeed, The Ivy Athletic League teams play the Patriot League in football and usually trounce them.