Engineering Schools and Lacrosse - Advice
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Anonymous
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When considering strong aerospace engineering and lacrosse programs the following come to mind:
Michigan Stanford Virginia Tech Virginia Tech generally has a Top 25 women’s lacrosse team. The men have a strong club program. Agree with one of the previous posters, you better have a strong academic profile just to get into the university in general, let alone their engineering school. |
Anonymous
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no top D1 program is going to let a player major in engineering.
If you want to pursue engineering, you should be looking mainly at D3 |
Anonymous
+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting. |
Anonymous
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Delaware
York UMBC RIT |
Anonymous
The question posted was which are the best lacrosse schools with aerospace engineering. Most have stuck to addressing this specific question. You raise la good point about majors. Having been through the recruiting process one should ask coaches and players if there are any majors where players have struggled to balance their lacrosse commitment and school work. And how coaches will address situations where classes may conflict with lacrosse. Ask how many players are currently in the major of interest and if you can get their perspective. |
Anonymous
Not true you can look at the rosters. They may only have 1 or 2 engineers but they do have engineering majors. |
Anonymous
This is what happened to my DD. She then decided on a solid D3 program where she can do both and turned down the d1 schools. |
Anonymous
Eh they might have one or two at most. However, D1 lacrosse teams commonly have a ton of finance majors - is finance not demanding? I genuinely don't know. |
Anonymous
That does raise the question though - is the life of a D3 player really that much less demanding than a D1 player? Does a D3 player not have to spend as much time at workouts and at practice as a D1? If the daily life of a D3 player is as fully scheduled as that of a D1 player then how do all the D3 players who are engineering majors handle it? |
Anonymous
| Each school, each player, each situation is different. Blanket statements don't work. Army lacrosse is full of engineering majors. MIT is D3 I am guessing the academic load is tough. A few seasons ago Yale's top player was mentioned on the broadcast as a Bio Chemistry major with a 3.9 GPA. I did not hear any coaches tell our son he could or could not major in engineering. |
Anonymous
So what |
Anonymous
Please post a D1 lacrosse program with Aerospace Engineering or other Engineering majors on the team. The reply was agreeing with the post that OP might want to focus on D3 programs if they want to pursue Aeorspace Engineering. Maybe it happens once in a great while but we have had personal experience with D1 coaches straight up telling us they do not want their players majoring in Engineering. |
Anonymous
Umm Airforce Academy is D1 |
Anonymous
I would suspect there is more flexibility in class selection for Finance than Aerospace Engineering. There may well be conflicts between required classes where there is only one section (and you have to take it in a certain semester to keep up with the course sequencing) and practice/workout. |
Anonymous
Not sure of Aerospace but Tufts University has a school of engineering and is consistently at the top of the D3 rankings. |