Help Me Decide (please): Northwestern University / Harvey Mudd / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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It looks like the Claremont colleges don’t have wrestling (they do have football, as intparent said):
https://www.cmsathletics.org/prospective_athletes/index

However, I believe the OP said he doesn’t think he’s very likely to continue football or wrestling in college because of the time commitment.
If he wants to continue in sports but with a lesser time commitment, and has an interest in learning (or going back to) a different sport, he might want to look into club sports (or intramurals if he wants a lower level of commitment than club and doesn’t want any travel).
I know that Ultimate frisbee, for example, often has players who used to play football or soccer who start in college (because the majority of players start playing in college) and are very successful at it because of their speed, reflexes, and field sense. (Both NU and HMU have Ultimate.) Generally the A teams practice a lot and travel to compete somewhat frequently, and the B teams have a lower level of commitment, fewer practices, travel a couple of times, and it’s OK to miss tournaments if the timing doesn’t work well. For other club sports, I don’t know how successful athletes are at getting on to club teams in sports they haven’t competed in before.

There are more different types of club sports at NU than at the Claremont colleges, but that only matters if there are club sports he’d be interested in switching to at NU that aren’t at HMU.

If the idea of club sports interests you, OP, take a look at the list of club sports at both:

https://www.cmsathletics.org/club_sports/club_sports/index

http://www.imleagues.com/spa/club/1dac1bfe249441c8a45744e13ac13093/home

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You can, of course, play the outdoor sports year around at HMC. ?

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“OP wants to get into business, Mudd is the wrong school for OP. Mudd also has back breaking mathematics classes, with so much grade deflation, its harder than MIT to earn an A. It just back breaking academics at Mudd, Northwestern, is much easier going, and much much better socially.” Yeah, good STEM schools are usually rigorous.

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“You can, of course, play the outdoor sports year around at HMC.”
True! Advantage HMC.
However, NU does have a huge indoor practice fieldhouse (full football field size, new last year) that’s used by varsity and club sports throughout the winter.