@twoinanddone, you said “NW is a lot like a lot of D3 schools”. Your exact words. How do you reconcile that with “I never said anything about D3”?
I apologize, I meant academically. It’s like Williams and Amherst and MIT in quality and academic rankings but much stronger in most sports teams because it gets to recruit as a D1 school and award scholarships. It’s like U Chicago in size, location, ranking. It is like Hopkins in the Big 10 except that they only share one sports team in common. It is like most of the high ranked LACs in costs.
Pizzagirl has said that NW is not a school of 15,000 but only of 8000, making it a medium school, not a big school, much more like Harvard than Ohio State. I do not think NW should play D3 sports if it doesn’t want to. I believe in college sports and think they add a great deal to the college experience. NW is in the Big 10 and it’s not going anywhere, but I get to have an opinion that NW is more like other private schools than it is like the big, huge flagships it battles in the Big 10. You can disagree.