A lot of times when people ask if they are good enough to run for so and so d1 school a lot of people on the boards respond that they’d be better off going d3. However I’ve never actually seen any d3 colleges mentioned specifically. So my question is this: what are the best overall d3 universities for track and field, factoring in academics as well.
Pretty easy to look up results for the past few years so that must not be what you are after. What exactly do you want to know? Do you want to know the best academic schools? Do you want to know which ones you are fast enough to run at? Do you want to know which ones are good academically that you would be accepted at? Do you want to know which one is good at a particular event group? It won't help you for me to tell you that XYC University wins track nationals and their incoming students have a 34 ACT if you only have a 29 and you are a distance runner but they don't have XC or a distance crew.
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A lot of times when people ask if they are good enough to run for so and so d1 school a lot of people on the boards respond that they’d be better off going d3. However I’ve never actually seen any d3 colleges mentioned specifically. So my question is this: what are the best overall d3 universities for track and field, factoring in academics as well.
With the exception of a handful, D3 schools are pretty crap academically. Thats why they don't mention them.
Here are the results of the last NCAA D3 championship for xc. Lots of great academic schools in that mix.
https://www.tfrrs.org/results/xc/16726/NCAA_Division_III_Cross_Country_Championship
My opinion of high academic schools in order of finish: Pomona Pitzer, Williams, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, MIT, RPI, Carleton, UChicago, Colby, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Amherst, Case Western, Haverford, Middlebury, Bates.
I would call all of those schools excellent for academics and athletics. Many other good academic D3 schools as well who didn't compete at NCAA's.
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A lot of times when people ask if they are good enough to run for so and so d1 school a lot of people on the boards respond that they’d be better off going d3. However I’ve never actually seen any d3 colleges mentioned specifically. So my question is this: what are the best overall d3 universities for track and field, factoring in academics as well.
The best D3 school is a D1 school.
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