Yes definitely NOT 60% recruited athletes to play at the D3 level, but having 60% of the class owning varsity letters in high school means the class is fairly athletic, no?
I realized hs athletic programs vary widely, and there are surely some unathletic kids on varsity teams, but, on the whole, making varsity seems to denote some level of athleticism. Not college-level varsity athleticism, but athleticism nonetheless.
And I don’t know, I say this as the “classic” Chicago admit from back in the day - the kid who had no chance of making a varsity team in anything, and rode the pine on a JV team as a senior (to fulfill a PE credit). And I can assure you, most of my cohort in the 90s was like me.