All great schools, but the only ones that are truly elite (top 10, under 10% acceptance), and have competitive lax are:
First tier:
Penn Stanford Northwestern Duke Hopkins Princeton
*All of these schools come hard after their preferred recruits on Sept. 1
Second tier:
ND
Then you have a bunch of great lax and academic schools in the 20-30 ranked range like:
UNC Virginia Georgetown Michigan Florida USC BC
Then you have great lax, good academic (50+) ranked
Maryland Syracuse Penn State JMU Rutgers
And you also have those super elite schools that have weak lacrosse teams:
Vanderbilt Cal Columbia Harvard Yale
Girls target programs for many different reasons. Some are focused on winning a championship, others want to go to the best possible school they can with a particular major in mind. Others may want their parents or siblings Alma mater. Some are just happy someone wants them.