The Most Well-Rounded Undergraduate Experiences

Bay
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:28:50 +0000

hawkette,

You might be the one underestimating the intramural/club programs that go on at some colleges ;):



Intramural Sports, Club Sports, and Individual Activities
Through the residential colleges, Yale offers one of the most extensive intramural athletics programs in the country. Intramural games are open to everyone, from one-time high school stars to untried novices, and each year more than 2,500 students participate. The twelve colleges compete throughout the year in over thirty sport activities; the college placing highest overall wins the coveted Tyng Cup.

Student-run club sports provide an important resource for those who want to participate in a program with a flexible schedule or in sports that are not offered by most colleges. These include many noncompetitive activities such as mountaineering, fishing, and kayaking, as well as competitive sports like biking, sailing, skiing, trap and skeet, golf, rugby, ultimate frisbee, and equestrian sports. Approximately six hundred students are active in thirty-five club sports over the course of the year.



I agree with you that the attraction of football/basketball at Yale is dwarfed by that of Cal, but my point was that the identical sporting events exist at Yale as Cal, so students who want to partake in those spectator sports have just as many opportunities. I don’t see how drawing a larger crowd necessarily makes a college more “well-rounded.”

While I have visited both campuses, I have never spent any time assessing the social opportunities at either one, so perhaps you are right about Cal having more to offer on the weekends. I just haven’t heard about it.