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.