A question for parents with college experience. If you’re daughter is a top recruit (top 20 ranked) has excellent grades. What type of scholarship should be expected? Ivy is also an option and we would probably qualify for about half tuition. Wondering if it the scholarship money would be be better at a non Ivy but top academic and lax school like NW, Stanford, Duke. Would appreciate any insight!
35% is a great offer unless you are a goalie,where you may get up to 50 or 60%.
For quick math, teams get 12 schollies, which average out to 3 per class.
Most top teams bring in 10 players, 6 or 7 of which get some $$. Assuming the goalie get 50%, then 7 players are dividing up 2.5 schollies.
Most of this ranking of players is a joke, so you seriously can’t go by these ranking lists you always see. Some kids belong on there, and some do not. Having a name on the rank list does not get you offers, although it may open doors to get seen. But coaches will evaluate players and find what they deem as top prospects. A true top prospect player will get 50% - 75% offers from at least half of the major top 10 programs and may get a full offer from one or two of these schools. This is for the first year with room to go to full based on performance. The next wave of schools are the ones that drift in and out of the top 20, say from ranked between 11-30, you will get more full offers, probably close to 1/3 to 1/2 of these schools. And even higher ratio from schools below that. But be realistic, only a small handful of kids fit this description. Think about the top travel team in the nation, and you may get 2-3 kids with these offers. The rest of the players on that same team will see about half that.
Here we go again.... "Ranking of players is a joke" ... Bla bla bla... While I would agree that some lists created by local outlets are questionable The Inside Lacrosse Senior Rankings (Top 30, 40) have proven to be pretty accurate. Not the actual order but for the most part the players ranked in the top 30 or 40 do in fact go on to many of the Top 10 - 15 programs and they do very well.
I would add that the amount of $$ a player is offered also depends on where the player ranks on a particular schools list. Not every top tier recruit is a schools #1 recruit. The player could be BC's #1 and UNC's #2 and Northwesterns # 4. The Schools #1 will get more than their #4.
The fact is that the majority of those Top 30, 40 players do go to the Top 10 - 15 programs and that is why the same schools always seem to be the same. There are maybe 10 - 15 programs that finish the season in the Top 20 every year (some in the Top 10 every year) then there are another 10 or so teams that bounce in and out from time to time.
It is not 100% accurate but there is a definite correlation between the number of "IL top 30,40" recruits a program gets and how that program performs over time. The Top Programs bring in the "Top Recruits" and the cycle repeats itself.
