Ephman

There are 66 tips at Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan. The other NESCAC schools all have a few more, around 72 I believe, perhaps more in some cases. But, another group of athletes are "protects," so I am sure the 100 number provided by the officer factors those admits in. Tips generally would not get accepted without help from a coach, while protects are students who would be strong candidates anyway based on other qualifications, but the coach want to be certain they are flagged as a potential impact athlete as well.

Despite Williams' well-deserved reputation for athletic excellence, it is certainly not an outlier in the conference in terms of percentage of recruits on campus. Indeed, on a percentage basis, the school has far fewer tips than most NESCAC schools (Williams is the fourth largest school in the league, yet is tied for the fewest number of tipped athletes). Moreover, Williams has the most varsity sports of any NESCAC school (some schools do not have varsity wrestling, skiing, women's golf, and/or crew programs, and conn college has no varsity football), so the recruited athletes are distributed among more teams.