@BooBooBear You do realize schools like Princeton have a student body made up of over 20% playing D1 sports? ?
From Harvard’s website “It is easy to make athletics and physical fitness a regular part of the undergraduate experience at Harvard. In fact, nearly 80 percent of our students are involved in some kind of athletics—and nearly everyone joins in cheering on their friends and classmates and showing Crimson pride”
Again their student body has over 20% recruited athletes playing D1…not to mention recreational fitness, intramural and club.
Not surprisingly they picked an Ivy school for the academics and sports not because of their sports prowess.