My D was a recruited athlete and considered Wesleyan. It wasn’t a good fit for several reasons, but one was a lack of seriousness about excelling that the coach exhibited. He seemed to have resigned himself to just trying to field a team–forget about ever winning. So this article surprised me. After all our tour guide even bragged about Wes’ “portable” football stadium and definitely implied that athletics were not a big deal at the school and that that was good thing. Having just gotten the very same impression from the coach, D felt she’d prefer to be at a college that valued athletes a little more. I will also say that the coach told D that because she was an URM, her test scores didn’t need to be as high to gain admission. While I know that’s a reality at many colleges, the fact he said it out loud to her was a major turnoff.