My son is a junior on 9/1 eleven schools reached out. Not DUKE, ND, Virginia etc. However hey were all D-1 schools and he has a 89 average and hasn't taken the SAT yet so far not one school has said he wont get in academically. Bottom line he is an average student and that is fine and Lax is going to get him into one of those schools FACT. Without Lax he wouldn't be considered.
The level of help depends on how good the recruit is compared to the grades he has and what the school requires. Everyone gets some help. The higher a school has placed a kid on the recruitment list the more help he will receive. Nothing is absolute. I know one kid who got into a top lacrosse and academic Ivy through lacrosse and a weak Patriot League team could not get him through admissions. Every coach has a different relationship with admissions. Every coach evaluates talent different. Just because a top lacrosse and academic school like Yale wants a kid does not mean a weaker lacrosse college with much weaker admissions standards could get him through admissions. Every situation is different.
