""Not jealous at all. They played the lacrosse game and won. Good for them! My point is that some of those schools are good at lacrosse and academics, and some are great schools with a lax team. Harvard, Yale and Columbia, do not support their athletes and you better not wear lax gear around campus either. Also you need to take the subway to the field at Columbia. Bus at Yale. I’m sure many would be willing to look past that for a great degree. Yale I would say would be the third best lax Ivy after Princeton and Penn. They have a good coach and some decent recruits coming in. Congratulations and good luck to all!""
Why would you say Yale is the 3rd best Ivy? Yale has not finished the season ranked in the Top 20 in more than 13 years (2010 - 2022) maybe longer. Yale has a better program than Columbia but that might be it. Maybe going forward they will become more competitive but they have been near the bottom for a long time.
Yale came in ranked 25 at the end of last season. Ahead of Penn, who did not have a good year. That puts them at #2 currently in the Ivies. Dartmouth was good before coach left for Stanford. Brown has potential too. But right now, Yale is #2 in Ivies, and will likely keep improving.
If you have ever walked through Cambridge you can’t Throw a Stone without hitting an athlete wearing their Team bag and jacket. They have over 40 varsity sports With 20% of students being varsity athletes. Do your Homework bro!!
I know several student athletes that attend or have attended there. Professors do not like athletes there. Probably because they know that many are not on the same academic level as regular students. They do not care about their grueling schedules and are not at all sympathetic. I’m sure that is true at other top ranked academic schools too. The other complaint I hear a lot is that the facilities are not walking distance from campus. I don’t believe they have an indoor practice field either. They did just build a nice locker room/ gym and game field though.
Sounds like you hang in a circle with a lot of complainers. You and your friends shout try focusing on the positives, life is a lot better when you look on the bright side of things. I guess you and your Harvard friends have not been taught the toughest arithmetic of all … “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings’.
