I’ll also throw out that when I played (D3) football in college, the intellectual load of the sport was higher than in some of my academic classes. We’d spend an hour a day studying film, and on the field we were expected to know understand how our actions would effect multiple other parties in a system.

I still think I got more (intellectually) out of college level football than I did out of intro level sociology.

Given the presumably-larger number of hours I figure you put into football vs. into intro sociology, that hardly seems surprising.

Do you have to be on a team for those majors? Or does it count towards them? If not, I'd say that's still not the same.

> Do you have to be on a team for those majors? Or does it count towards them?

Varsity sports provides letter-graded credits in “classes” available only to student athletes at many colleges and universities, and those credits are generally applicable to general ed requirements for any major to whatever limits generally apply to PE credits, and to major requirements in some related majors, yes.