You’re way off. Getting into a better college and improve your earnings potential is the best ROI from all this lax money. Hard to put a number on it but the likely differences in post college earnings between Maryland and any Ivy is massive. Changes your life trajectory.
Getting into an Ivy League school (AND PAYING FOR IT - no Athletic scholarships) is probably not the best ROI for a kid who might end up struggling academically there. A close family member had that situation. He would have been much better off in life going to Maryland over his Ivy.
Originally Posted by Anonymous
You’re way off. Getting into a better college and improve your earnings potential is the best ROI from all this lax money. Hard to put a number on it but the likely differences in post college earnings between Maryland and any Ivy is massive. Changes your life trajectory.
This guy gets it. If your kid is not in the top 1% you should be sending your kid to a D3 NESCAC if he is smart instead of a D1 outside the top 10 where you have zero chance of winning the national championship - maybe 10% outside the top 10 even have a chance of making the NCAA tournament one time in their 4 years of college - once! It is about academics - (unless you are a union person then this doesn't really apply) and improving your chances to succeed.
Plus the top D3 would beat anyone outside the top 20 in D1 anyway
I would have to agree, one of my son's set his sites on D3 Lacrosse a few years back, specifically in the NESCAC Conference. He felt strongly that he wanted to play high level D3 Lacrosse, so that his entire college experience would not be just about Lacrosse, and attend the best possible academic school he could, to prepare him for life after college. Both of these are both present in the NESCAC schools, which is where he is headed in September 2019. If your son wants to head in this direction, it really is the best balance of quality Lacrosse, and High Quality Education, but prepare yourself, because D3 has no athletic scholarships, and most of the NESCAC schools have no merit aide, only need-based aide. So if your like most of us that have two incomes coming into the household, forget about need based aide. If somehow you have to put together the $70,000 plus it takes to go to one of these schools, either through savings or loans, your son better be a stud in the classroom, not just the lacrosse field. If he wants to play at last years D3 Champion, Wesleyan, or Tufts, Bates, Amherst, and the like, he better be a pretty darn lacrosse player also, because on any given day, these schools, as a previous poster indicated, can run through most of the D1 teams after the top 15 or so. Lacrosse is a great Networking Sport, and should be thought of as that, a way to get into a better school, then you might not get into otherwise. At the end of the day, you also want your son to go somewhere, where he will get an opportunity to play not stare at the back of someone else's helmet for four years, just so they can say "they got recruited by Maryland etc.", and the day after graduation, you want them to have a sheepskin, that will get them noticed in the workplace. One Man's Opinion... [/quote]
Thanks for your input......but you are wrong. They don't play at the same level as most D1 schools. But if you and son are happy that's what counts.
