Tennis at MIT

dilksy
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:17:08 +0000

Last year when I was looking at MIT, I tried to find some stuff on the tennis players. I had trouble finding records/rankings, but the one kid from my state on the team (Michigan) played 1 singles all four years in high school and was top 4 or so in the state his senior year, so I assumed the team is pretty good.

That being said, as a Division III sport they can’t offer athletic scholarships. Also, since MIT is first and foremost a rigorous academic institute, they don’t really recruit anybody for athletics, they just take the best players who get accepted and want to play tennis. I think it just so happens that tennis is the sport of choice for lots of smart people, so MITs tennis program is relatively a lot more competitive than the rest.