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what a burn. and the street lingo made it that much more legit.

It was a legit point. To claim that Harvard and Princeton don't produce productive, enterprising, self-reliant and hard-working graduates is about as stupid a comment as I have seen on here. And there's a lot of competition.

hey counselor (very glad your not mine) at no point did I say there are NO hard working or enterprising young folks at Harvard or Princeton. don't project onto me a blanket stupid statement. simply said I'd rather the professors like Stiglitz and others not bad mouth our country and our capitalist system while I pay them 60k. if you chose to be in company with socialists that's your business. go crazy have at it.

This is a lax forum, i know everybody wants to send their kids to the best academic schools, but come on its getting a little crazy...go find an academic forum.

I tried the academic forum first but there are a bunch of YJ parents over there talking lacrosse.

Yes, I have a 2019 that is sitting on offers from several of her top schools (did not go to their camps) and is waiting on several others whose camps she did attend...

Yes, I have a 2019 that is sitting on offers from several of her top schools (did not go to their camps) and is waiting on several others whose camps she did attend...

Anybody have examples of girls committing without going to that particular college's camp? I'm curious, because I don't know of any. And I think it makes sense. But I believe it shows the low value represented by tournaments as it relates to recruiting. (I think there are other benefits like improving your game, having fun with teammates etc.) I think narrowing list to realistic places to play and then attending camps is the best bang for the buck. Thoughts?

Yes, that's why we have counselled our daughter to wait-- we will be more informed buyers after the fall season. I can understand committing earlier if it is a "are you kidding me you can get into that school!" but in our book there are only 2 or 3 of those for us and they have not offered her yet. Now, if one of those 2 or 3 schools does not offer her at the end of the fall season, she will gladly accept one of the offers she already has or potentially consider others that might come in during/after fall ball.

We waited until Fall of junior year after visiting several schools. Decided on a D2 3 hours away instead of D1 a plane ride away. 2 of my daughters friends jumped the gun and committed as sophomores to D1 schools that they never visited and now as seniors are realizing they will be 4-5 hour plane ride from home AND the current freshmen did not play much in their fall season and are miserable. Another girl we know was forced to commit to a school near Canada because it was her only offer and her obnoxious father wants to tell people she's playing D-1. I predict all will be home after first season. Parents- do your homework. Trust your daughters, nobody cares what division they play for- let them make the decision! They're the ones that will be going away, not you! Offers will come right up until senior year so enjoy the process. Fall ball tourneys are under rated, that's where so many scouts go and are able to see the athletes clearer. Best of luck

Happy to share: We are making our daughter wait for the following reasons: 1) no school with offer on the table has given her a deadline (yet); 2) she is barely 15 and even though she thinks she knows everything already we as her parents feel it is important to take our time with this decision; 3) fall tourney season starts in a week and this may provide more opportunities if she plays well; 4) she would be happy with taking one of the offers she has, but we are waiting to see if one of the "are you kidding me you can get into that school!" programs offers her after the fall season assuming she plays well. This will be her only opportunity to go through this process (and yes, I understand that it is non-binding at this point) so we think it is important to take our time. I have been through this with older children and I don't feel the need to allow her commit early so that she can crow about it to Ty Xanders and others who trumpet this stuff.

I would imagine the "are you kidding me you can get into that school!" list is the top 3 or 4 schools of US News WR that have competitive lax.

For my kid it would be:

Stanford, Duke, NU, Ivies and a few others

I think some kids do not want nor can go to ivy but wantt to pllay at a school with a top program and still get a great education. What schools do you think fit that bill

For my kid it would be:

Stanford, Duke, NU, Ivies and a few others

You and the rest of the wealthy and private school kids.

Why is that your answer? We are not wealthy and my kid goes to a public school. The Ivies give the best need aid of all colleges and the others have just as many scholarships as everyone else. Unless your in-state schools are a good match, why would you not think these schools are amazing opportunities??

Your the exception, look at the commit lists for these schools.

Sorry but Ivies are for the financially needy and the rich at this point especially if you have multiple kids . Duke , Stanford are better options for the upper middle class at this point and then there are the UVA , UNC , BC types on the next level if you want excellent academics and highly competitive girls lax .

Mass Elite 2019 red is one of the top teams in this age group.. I'm from Connecticut and my daughter plays on a weaker club team, but I have seen this girls play. The majority of the best players on the New England Under Armour team were on Mass Elite and they smoked team LI.

Sorry just not true. You can become more informed if you actually go to the financial aid calculators at Harvard's site for an example. If you live in NY and have annual income of 200k and assets of 500k not including house, you get close to half of the cost covered by aid if you have two kids in college. Now if you consider that financially needy, ok, but i don't. Ivies are way more generous w aid and to much higher thresholds than most non-ivies. Now of course having the grades and the playing ability are not easy. But the cost of going to an Ivy for a middle-class family is not the main problem relative to many other schools out there.