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.
I wouldn't use acceptance rate as a barometer.
Tremendous opportunity out there for young women who want to play at the next level but the reality is that most will not be going to these schools. In the 2023 class there are 20 - 25 girls from Long Island committed to the schools listed above, with maybe 4-5 going to the "truly elite" academic schools.
