What Would The Score Be If The New England Patriots Played The Idaho Vandals

How important is it to do a sport for college admissions?

It may be “important” for the elite Private US colleges, especially the small elite colleges in the NESCAC athletic league (Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, etc.) where roughly 40% of the Undergraduates play an Intercollegiate sport. Similarly some of the elite colleges in the Patriot League (like Lafayette) have over 30% of the undergraduates playing an intercollegiate sport.For the eight colleges in the Ivy athletic league, 16 to 18% of the undergraduates play an intercollegiate sport, and for MIT it is slightly over 20%.Indeed, for the freshman class than entered MIT in the Fall of 2015, 62% had played an interscholastic sport in high school……………… 62%.For that same entering class of MIT, I have a small figure to cite: One head varsity coach that I know well, “flagged” a number of applicants that had potential for the Varsity team. Twenty-five percent (25%) of those that were flagged were admitted. The overall admission rate that year was 8%.Everyone that I know (personally) who attended Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams played a sport either in high school or at the college. Same for Lehigh and Lafayette.Basically, I tell people that if you Don’t play a sport, and you want to attend Amherst or Williams and you also are Not legacy, that it is Easier to be admitted to Harvard or Yale. Indeed, I know people who were rejected by Bowdoin and easily made it into MIT.NOTE: That is not true for the large Public Universities, like UCLA or UC Berkeley. They have, maybe, 3% at most of their undergraduates playing an intercollegiate sport. Playing a sport to a large public university is merely an activity.Many of the elite Private universities espouse the philosophy of:Mind and Body.You can’t improve one without improving the other, which is the philosophy developed at the British colleges of Cambridge and Oxford (before England reminded them that they are Public).