It varies by grade.
Younger students get fewer options than do upperformers.
Basically, the school expects all students to have an afternoon activity every term and for most of our kids, most of the time, that activity will tend to be athletics. Intramural and instructional sports tend to meet for an hour at a time, four to five times a week. Typically, Choate student-athletes find their academic performance actually improves during the seasons they're on a team, for they become more adept at budgeting their time. Teams generally compete twice a week, most often on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the great effort is made to ensure travel schedules are reasonable, rarely causing students to miss an academic commitment. Nearly all of our students play on an interscholastic team at some point in their Choate careers.