#4 Hamilton basketball in overtime against #1 Wes right now! Nail biter!
With respect to NESCAC athletic competition on gelid surfaces, Bowdoin and Hamilton have placed into the top sixteen nationally in the USA Curling College Championship:
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Congratulations to Bowdoin womenâs basketball on back to back NESCAC chamionships.
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Ho could Trinity not be on that list?
I agree that Trinity has one of the most strikingly attractive campuses in NESCAC. My hunch, however, is that the publishers were going for variety and Trinityâs strength in Gothic architecture got lost among all the other contestants for the same niche. Williams didnât make it either even though it would be hard to argue that there is a better venue for Fall foliage anywhere in the country:
Iâve never seen any campus more stunning than the Bates quad in the fall. Crazy number of trees! (But, yes, pretty much all the New England campuses shine in fallâŠ).
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I came across this pic of the Bates Quad a few months ago. I was looking for photos for a custom jigsaw puzzle for my Bates-bound daughter. New England is hard to beat in the fall.
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@sfSTEM My daughter is a first year and loving it! Feel free to DM me with any questions
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A jigsaw puzzle of her future school is such a cool idea!
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Wow, stunning photo of the Bates quad! It really turns into a blanket of red and orange on the lawn. Itâs also great that parents weekend is in October!
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Yeah, but so far for us, Bates parentsâ weekend has fallen well before peak colors. Still lovely, but the best comes a little later (around fall break).
(Then again, Iâve lived in rural New England and the Midwest, so I have high standards for colors!)
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Not sure if they still do this, but Colby used to open the clock tower on Parents Weekend. The view from there out over the campus and fall foliage was breath-taking!
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Hamilton losing the thriller in double OT to Wes, only to see Wes go on to lose to Trinity in the finals and spoil their perfect season. Letâs see what happens in the NCAA tournament.
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True! Better to see it in mid-OctoberâŠ
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Not sure if this is behind a paywall, but Wesleyan and Amherst get huge shout outs in this Times/Athletic piece regarding the pursuit of Name Image Likeness (NILs) deals at the small college level. Who knew that was a thing!
(Michael) Astorino, who has partnered with more than 15 brands, co-founded an NIL agency. He earned a part-time job as head of partnerships for a vegan protein company that stemmed from an NIL deal. He is even co-facilitating a âWesleyan Shark Tankâ course that teaches students how to pitch businesses to potential investors.
(H)e was inspired, in part, by Jack Betts, who played football in the same conference at Amherst College and graduated in 2023. Betts said he earned around $9,500 combined in free product and total compensation. But he amassed more than 35 NIL-related deals, earned the moniker âThe King of D3 NILâ and used that experience to found The Make Your Own Legacy Academy, a first-of-its-kind NIL education solution created to help underserved small-market athletes.
Michael Astorinoâs âentrepreneurial and creative spiritâ paying off at Wesleyan University - The Athletic
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Wow, that is unexpected. Figured NIL was a D1 thing almost exclusively. Very cool.
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The other âbigâ story in that story:
Wesleyan is having a historic season, earning the No. 1 overall NCAA Tournament seed while setting the single-season program record for wins. The Cardinals will attempt to make it out of the first weekend and reach the Sweet 16 for the first time. Yet one of their most intriguing stories comes from someone who likely wonât play.
Despite losing to Trinity for conference bragging rights, they head into the tournament as the No. 1 seed. Go Wes!!!
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This is a stretch for high hopes on my part, but perhaps if what you expect occurs, along with a more general trend in that direction, it might be healthier for the culture. Imagine a day when there is less focus on acceptance rates and more focus on attending a college for the reasons that will actually matter over the four years of attendance.
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I agree with you.
I think some view lower acceptance rates as caused by more applications for a limited number of spots - but that should merely result in lower average yield for colleges with domestic applicants, as opposed to lower acceptance rates. Unless we are only looking at elite-tiers, as opposed to colleges on the whole. Perhaps there is a permanent ârace to the topâ.
I think one thing that probably wonât change too much is a permanent increase in international applicants, in part due to the ability of internationals to apply online, and partly due to their continued interest in attending college in the U.S.
The size of the domestic applicant pool may decrease, but I doubt the international pool will.
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