Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Again, football is quite different from lacrosse. I would challenge anyone on here to go the Ivy rosters and see where all those kids went to HS. A whole lot of privates, very few publics.

Only real difference at an Ivy is the amount of players. They still need to average out the Team AI.

Not sure what your point is regarding public or private. My oldest went to a public HS and I believe there were 9 athletes from the same graduation class that went on to compete at Ivy League schools .

I think most college lacrosse rosters are filled with kids from private schools (not just the Ivy’s)

The point is, the ridiculous argument that lacrosse “significantly “ improves an athlete’s chances for admissions. The vast majority of players at Ivy League schools are excellent students from elite private HS programs and families of means. They are not 85 GPA 1200 SAT students from a LI public as some here would have you believe. This is also true for those athletes going to elite programs and schools ie UVA, UNC and ND.

Lacrosse most certainly does "significantly" improve an athletes chances for admission to Ivy League schools. As for the "public" school kids from Long Island or anywhere for that matter you should be very thankful that they choose to attend Ivy League schools because over the years Ivy League Teams would be very pedestrian without them.