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[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=11265.msg107243#msg107243 date=1417568318]
Forget Harvard - They have B.erkeley at #10.  That's eight slots ahead of us for those scoring at home.

Huh?

Perhaps the scoring team REALLY, REALLY likes Rugby.

(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)

Clearly it's not only the varsity level athletes that go into their classification, as they are trying to gauge how much athletics would affect attending student. In their full methodology page they explain that intramural leagues are included as well:

Sports (5%): Best intramural sports (1.67%, Niche); number of varsity athletes and division classification (1.67% each, U.S. Department of Education).

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OK, but IM sports at Stanford are pretty strong.  It is hard to believe that the ivy league teams have more varsity athletes and better intramural sports, and that the difference is large enough to overcome Stanford's advantage in division classification (unless, the Ivy Leagues are simply considered Div. I, with no distinction between Div 1A and Div 1AA [now that D1A has a playoff, is it still called the FBS?])

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[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=11265.msg107243#msg107243 date=1417568318]
Forget Harvard - They have B.erkeley at #10.  That's eight slots ahead of us for those scoring at home.

Huh?

Perhaps the scoring team REALLY, REALLY likes Rugby.

(Well known jock schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are 1, 2 & 3 in their athletics section.)

Clearly it's not only the varsity level athletes that go into their classification, as they are trying to gauge how much athletics would affect attending student. In their full methodology page they explain that intramural leagues are included as well:

Sports (5%): Best intramural sports (1.67%, Niche); number of varsity athletes and division classification (1.67% each, U.S. Department of Education).

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OK, but IM sports at Stanford are pretty strong.  It is hard to believe that the ivy league teams have more varsity athletes and better intramural sports, and that the difference is large enough to overcome Stanford's advantage in division classification (unless, the Ivy Leagues are simply considered Div. I, with no distinction between Div 1A and Div 1AA [now that D1A has a playoff, is it still called the FBS?])

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