Good Academic d3/d2 schools??

Ripon College

Wash U is d2 im pretty sure

Wash U is D3 - great school - great coach - STL can be hairy though

the claremont colleges - mudd and CMC especially. pomona is good but overrated

Check out any of the schools in the NESCAC conference.

Haverford College

the academics are good at any accredited school. doesnt matter where you go

iwjjdm wrote:

the academics are good at any accredited school. doesnt matter where you go

Yeah...no.

socalbro wrote:

the claremont colleges - mudd and CMC especially. pomona is good but overrated

You must be a CMS runner. Pomona is not overrated. Pomona is outstanding.

UAA, NESCAC, others. You named half the UAA plus Tufts (NESCAC) here.

afdsdfs wrote:

iwjjdm wrote:

the academics are good at any accredited school. doesnt matter where you go

Yeah...no.

How many schools have you been to?

These threads come up at least once a month. Usually started by NESCAC kids (most often from tufts) to brag about how good their conference is.

If you want to get an actual degree look at schools from the UAA. And of course MIT alone makes NEWMAC a top academic conference.

I am also thinking about CMU. I'm pretty serious about running. 4:25/mile as a Junior. What do you think?

Dickinson College

Gustavus Adolphus College

Pretty much every school on that list has a good distance program. Maybe Wellesley doesn't but that probably isn't relevant, being an all-girls school anyways. In particular, Haverford College has an outstanding distance program. But you really can't go wrong in that top ten.

Although it depends what you mean when you say "good academics." If you mean "best in the country," then the answer is Williams or Carleton or Haverford or any of the others on that list. If you are looking for a notch below that tier, there are a looooot of schools to look at.

CO School of Mines is the "other" decent D2 academic school (for technical stuff, of course).

For d3:

Haverford: top-10 academics among liberal arts colleges, and consistent top-10 performances at nationals including 1st, 2nd, and 2nd over the last five years. The year they won, their team captain from the previous year also picked up a Rhodes Scholarship. They'll take anyone, any level of talent.

Williams: best liberal arts college in the country, really consistent top-level performances including a couple of championships in the 90s. They'll similarly take a large team.

If you can get into either of those, go. They're the only real choices in d3 for top-level academics combined with top-level athletics. Everyone else is just a second-choice, backup, compromise on one of those two fronts. It's only a small margin that makes Amherst, Middlebury, WashU, CMU, etc. second-choices to the 'big two,' but it's a recognizable difference.

Carted Away...you are absolutely uninformed! The "big two" in D3....ha, get over yourself!