By Linnea Cavallo and Felix Ortiz, The Whetstone

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With more than a thousand private colleges in the United States to choose from, why did some students choose to be Wolverines?

For many students, the answer is sports.

Wesley College coaches said they have a narrow field of the students they try and recruit.

The most successful recruiting sport, football, begins its recruitment a year before a student comes to the college.