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In my experience most ivy league athletes are nerds.

• local_crmdgeon 3y ago
  This applies to most athletes I know. A lot of the stereotypical nerds I know, meanwhile, don't actually know much about STEM. Discipline in the physical often benefits discipline in the mental.
  • daft_pink 3y ago
    Yeah, it's just that most ivy league schools aren't in Division 1 programs, so the school isn't prioritizing athletics over academics. When I went to a Division 1 school and had a class with an athlete, they were terrible people who clearly knew that the school was benefiting from them being unpaid employees and just partied together all the time. If they repeated this study for a mid-tier schools (top 50-500 universities) with division 1 program like Michigan State or Gonzaga. I'm sure the results would be totally different and the academics at the school would show much better results.