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.