Originally Posted by Anonymous
Lacrosse only gets the top 50 recruits into colleges they don’t deserve to get into the rest end up at schools they wouldn’t have even applied to or heard of before. Most private school lacrosse players end up at lower tiered schools then their non lacrosse playing student counterparts.The “lacrosse is going to help get you into a better school” theory went out the window about twenty years ago. You just have to figure a way to get your kid ranked in the top 50.

Some simple math shows the absurdity of this statement. There are at least 30 top academic schools recruiting lacrosse players and even with small recruiting classes of 10 that would be 300 kids. Given the demographics of most lacrosse players, how else do you think those players are getting into those schools which are accepting 10% of their applicants?

There is truth to the overall statement though - a lot of kids do choose schools that aren't the best option academically or financially so they can continue to play lacrosse. Club lacrosse at the best school for them would be the better choice.