Engineering Schools and Lacrosse - Advice

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Anonymous wrote: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

+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting.

Not true you can look at the rosters. They may only have 1 or 2 engineers but they do have engineering majors.

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.

Umm Airforce Academy is D1

How many kids on the team are engineering majors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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

+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting.

Not true. I was a heavily recruited D1 athlete and coaches had no say in my major. And we had engineering majors on athletic scholarships on my team.

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Navy

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting.

Not true. I was a heavily recruited D1 athlete and coaches had no say in my major. And we had engineering majors on athletic scholarships on my team.

OK genius.  How many students on UVA men lacrosse roster major in Engineering in 2022-2023?  Last time I checked, NONE.  There are 50 players on the roster, and even if you have two players who major in Engineering, that's about 4%.  It is almost impossible to study STEM while being a D1 athlete.  Those that did are both incredible smarts and unbelievable work ethics. 

It is like saying "Bryce Young" is a Heisman trophy winner and is also a STEM major.  Not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting.

Not true. I was a heavily recruited D1 athlete and coaches had no say in my major. And we had engineering majors on athletic scholarships on my team.

OK genius.  How many students on UVA men lacrosse roster major in Engineering in 2022-2023?  Last time I checked, NONE.  There are 50 players on the roster, and even if you have two players who major in Engineering, that's about 4%.  It is almost impossible to study STEM while being a D1 athlete.  Those that did are both incredible smarts and unbelievable work ethics. 

It is like saying "Bryce Young" is a Heisman trophy winner and is also a STEM major.  Not going to happen.

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DD on Capital Blue wanted to play college lacrosse and be an engineering major. Class valedictorian, excellent test scores, varsity athlete for four years in lax, field hockey and track (including team captain), member of HS engineering club for four years and president of it for 2. She was upfront with college coaches on her academic goals. Only got one offer from a school that had a strong engineering program (and a very mediocre D3 lacrosse program).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no top D1 program is going to let a player major in engineering.

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.

The big difference is that engineering (and most hard sciences) have labs in additional lectures.

So a finance class may meet for 3-4 hours per week. An Engineering class may meet for 3-4 hours plus have a 3-4 hour lab. Multiple that by several classes per semester and it is nearly impossible to have all of your classes completed by 2pm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lehigh has excellent engineering programs.

…though none of those programs include aeronautical engineering. Moreover, Lehigh is way overpriced for an engineering degree.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like some parent is finding out now near the end of 2023 recruiting period that no offers are on the way and now trying to justify this by "a very specific major" did not allow an school to be an option. I hope these anonymous responses provide the validation you seek. Not sure this is a wide lacrosse issue.

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Yale has had engineering majors on team recently including on men's national championship team, but I don't think they have aerospace.

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Again, is D3 really less demanding than D1? Yes D1 are better players but do they spend more hours/week working out and practicing than D3?

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Perhaps Navy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like some parent is finding out now near the end of 2023 recruiting period that no offers are on the way and now trying to justify this by "a very specific major" did not allow an school to be an option. I hope these anonymous responses provide the validation you seek. Not sure this is a wide lacrosse issue.

I am a 26 Mom and also interested in this info so thank for asking OP. I am trying to see if lax is even worth it in college. Looking at the Linkedin of some of the recent successful players from our club team, I don't see college lax translating into anything but kind of a waste of time at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, is D3 really less demanding than D1? Yes D1 are better players but do they spend more hours/week working out and practicing than D3?

Yes 100% yes.

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Anonymous wrote: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

+1 Wondering if people are just replying from recent topics who have no clue about athletic recruiting.

Not true. I was a heavily recruited D1 athlete and coaches had no say in my major. And we had engineering majors on athletic scholarships on my team.

OK genius.  How many students on UVA men lacrosse roster major in Engineering in 2022-2023?  Last time I checked, NONE.  There are 50 players on the roster, and even if you have two players who major in Engineering, that's about 4%.  It is almost impossible to study STEM while being a D1 athlete.  Those that did are both incredible smarts and unbelievable work ethics. 

It is like saying "Bryce Young" is a Heisman trophy winner and is also a STEM major.  Not going to happen.

I would not base anything on the UVA lax roster. UVA isn’t even an engineering school. Those kids are likely destined for commercial real estate or finance. Seven players on Stanford’s women’s lacrosse team have declared a major and 4 are engineers. Choosing an easier major to be able to play lacrosse is so incredibly short sighted and I would not play for a team requiring that. It’s not like anyone is going to have a lacrosse career after college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no top D1 program is going to let a player major in engineering.

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.

The big difference is that engineering (and most hard sciences) have labs in additional lectures.

So a finance class may meet for 3-4 hours per week. An Engineering class may meet for 3-4 hours plus have a 3-4 hour lab. Multiple that by several classes per semester and it is nearly impossible to have all of your classes completed by 2pm.

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I played a D1 sport for one season and couldn’t continue because of the conflict with afternoon labs.