Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Here’s the best advice I can give: Go to the best, most appropriate academic school possible for your kid. Period. Everything else is secondary. Jacksonville doing well right now. But you want your kid there or at some stronger academic school they’d whip? How about High Point? Should your kid go there or Dartmouth which traditionally occupies the basement of the Ivy League? Most of us would kill to have our kids go to Dartmouth. On the other hand if Jacksonville or High Point are academically appropriate for your kid….then have at it and send him there. Do the best you can to cast a wide net for recruiting. But never trade down academically…..And never go to a school unless you’d be happy there without lacrosse. There are a million things that can get in the way of a happy four years and MANY boys and girls drop out along the way.

Unless your kid is really, really smart then I wouldn't send them to an Ivy unless they are going to be something professionally high end...they sign about 80 kids each year so its a really small pool your talking about lax wise....the college lax team becomes your fraternity for life and it is a blast...go to school have fun, get a degree and you will get a job almost anywhere, the academic schools are becoming overstated now.

I have one out of college working as a Speech Therapist, one in college and one senior and I believe in Education. But my plumber profits over a million bucks a year every year without lifting a finger, he has 10 plumbers and drain guys that work for him and he started with just one truck; my ac and heating guy profits over five hundred thousand a year, again without lifting a finger. Just blows my mind.