<p>The flap about athletes at Haverford is ironic, because Haverford coaches have some of the LEAST pull of any academic D3 coaches. </p>
<p>I suspect starz is right re athletes’ academic qualifications being equivalent; the coach “pull” my D experienced at other top academic D3s was WAY stronger than it was at Haverford. Artificiallight is also right, people do tend to hang out with others who are like them. It’s too bad, because all the groups have so much to offer one another if they could mix it up a bit.</p>