Since the D1 athletic "scholarships" are almost always 1/4 scholarships, they don't help that much with costs (but every little bit helps). The real "payoff" for lacrosse is being able to get into a college you would be unable to get into based solely on your grades and other extracurricular activities. The best case is getting into a great D1 academic school that also plays lacrosse. After that, you need to decide if playing D1 at a lower academic school is better than D3 at a great academic school. (Is 4 years playing lacrosse more important than a top education?).
Here are the top academic D1 schools with lacrosse and their 2021 acceptance rates (source - Education Corner) : Harvard University 5.4% Yale University 6.3% Princeton University 6.5% United States Naval Academy 9% Brown University 9.3% University of Pennsylvania 9.4% United States Military Academy 10% Dartmouth College 10.6% Duke University 10.8% Johns Hopkins University 12.8% Cornell University 14.1% United States Air Force Academy 16.6% Georgetown University 17.4% University of Notre Dame 21.5% Colgate University 26.1% University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 28.5% University of Virginia 29% Hampton University 29.1% Lafayette College 29.8% Bucknell University 30.7% University of Richmond 31.9% University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 32.3%
Here are the top academic D3 schools with lacrosse that are just as hard to get into as the top D1 schools and acceptance rates: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 7.9% Amherst College 13.7% Bowdoin College 14.8% Swarthmore College 17% Middlebury College 17.3% Tufts University 17.3% Colorado College 18% United States Coast Guard Academy 18.1% Williams College 19.4% Washington and Lee University 19.6% United States Merchant Marine Academy 22.4% Vassar College 23.5% Wesleyan University 23.9% Haverford College 24.7% Kenyon College 25.1% Bates College 25.4% Babson College 26.4% Hamilton College 26.4% Colby College 28.1% Trinity College 33% |