Originally Posted by Anonymous


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3) Not qualified academically to get in to the school he will be attending. Let that sink in some. We're not talking raced based admissions; we're talking pure academics. If you're son gets into Duke but isn't in the academic ballpark -- good luck. This isn't football/basketball. There is no pot of gold at the end of the bench for 99.99% of lax players. Academics matter. Your son will have a full time job playing lax, and another one trying to catch up in the classroom. That is a scenario set up for disaster.

Hope you prepped your kid to work just as hard in the classroom as he does on the lacrosse field. Otherwise, you can kiss that scholarship goodbye.


A lacrosse player with a 1400 SAT and top 5% HS GPA is most certainly capable of succeeding at any school in the country outside of maybe Caltech. Without lacrosse, however, this student has a zero percent chance of admittance to any of the non-Cornell Ivies, and pretty rough odds at the other top 25 schools.

Your third point (copied/pasted above) is bullsh*t for the vast majority of kids.