You need to ask yourself a bunch of hard questions when you are thinking about playing college lacrosse:
Do I want to be an impact player and probably get minutes as a frosh and maybe not be the best academics or “coolest” college?
Do I want to play for the best team that I get recruited to and maybe not get any minutes at all?
Do I want to go to the best academic school I can get into and maybe won’t get any minutes at all?
Do I want to go to the coolest college I can get into and maybe not get any minutes?
Only the best players can check all four boxes. You need to figure out what you really want out of college before you make your list.
Basically, what do I want the next 4 years of my life to look like. Do I want to have a life in college, or is lacrosse practice and weight training every day my idea of college. As I have said before, if your kid has the chance to have a real heart-to-heart talk with a few college players, D1, D2 and D3...take the time to listen, it can be a real eye opener, and it may give your kid a little more perspective on what they want. My son was lucky to have a few high-level D1 and high academic D3 mentors, they really were a terrific resource. | 
