2027 GIRLS PLAYER COMMITMENTS 🥍🥍🥍
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Anonymous
| We aren’t in our recruiting year, just getting an idea of timelines. Do girls typically shoot for D1 and then if they don’t get offers they like pivot to NESCA or do they start talking to the NESCAs from the beginning and have to wait till junior grades and SATs are in? In the mean time do they continue to reach out to the D1s that may have spots open up / decommitments? Or are these complete different pools of players? |
Anonymous
| Cast a wide net. Roster numbers are drastically down from years past, coaches are being very selective and keeping spots open for the portal. |
Anonymous
+1 on everything stated here. The recruiting landscape is continually changing and getting more difficult for many. Roster caps, the use of the transfer portal, and the possibility of the “5-in-5” rule means that there are likely fewer D1 roster spots. Also, NESCAC and similarly high-academic D3s play a very high level of lacrosse and there are so many girls competing for those spots. Just bear all of that in mind. For NESCACs and similar, if this is your recruiting year, reach out to them and get on their radar. They will engage even if they are still finishing up with 2027s. Their process is just a lot longer than others because they need junior year grades and test scores (if applicable). However, as others noted, as the year goes on, most will let you know where you stand if you ask, so it’s not a complete unknown. |
Anonymous
Langley |
Anonymous
| Unless you love lacrosse, going to D3 financially may not make sense for some. They don't give a whole lot of money (if any) to beat in state cost |
Anonymous
That's not totally true. Outside of the NESCACs, other D3s will give merit money. Some schools with big endowments who value extracurriculars will give you quite a bit. The only rule is that merit is given by the admissions and financial aid offices, not the athletic department, to equalize gifts and prevent an athletes from getting more than say the musicians. Every school is different though. |
Anonymous
My child went D3 and got 35k merit, a lot more than peers who went D1. |
Anonymous
| My daughter went high academic D3 for lacrosse and was given 40K in scholarships from the school. Agree with the above comment. Sometimes merit is large at the D3 schools. The advice on D1 versus D3 for money is a complicated one. |
Anonymous
Agree. My high academic D3 kid got $25K in merit. But the award amount is only part of the story. Should be looking at TCoA. Even with that merit, we'll be paying $70K for college next year for her. Also, remember that some of the high academics only give need based aid (or have a very small number of merit scholarships to award). Flip side to all of this -- your daughter's options will be broader to the extent that you can comfortably pay close to $100K in tuition per year. Many higher academic schools are not need blind. If you are relying on a degree of merit to make the math work, I'd highly recommend asking for a financial pre-read alongside the academic one. |
Anonymous
Yep |
Anonymous
Exactly. Even with merit, better academic d3’s are not cheaper than in state unless you get financial aid also. That’s just the facts. My DC plays another sports. We got max merit and still could not get it lower. We were targeting top 100 schools. Top 50 gives nothing. |
Anonymous
Stars 2027 to Washington College (DIII) Pride Premier to Mary Washington (DIII) Coppermine Black to Denison (DIII) Pride Premier to UVA Wise (DII) Pride Premier x2 to Lenior Rhyne (DIII) Stars Blue to Rochester (DIII) Keep em coming |
Anonymous
| The teams ranked 150 and above are interesting. Looks like 1 can still get D1 at that low of a team but then again, there's other dynamics in play that makes people consider if going to a school is worth it even if it's D1. |
Anonymous
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True Nova to Bridgewater (DIII)
Pride to Oneonta (DIII) |
Anonymous
Entirely true. It is an economic analysis that takes into account both quantitative and qualitative factors. For us, the quality of education, the campus atmosphere, opportunities to do research that would go to grad students at the big in state schools that fall to undergrads at a SLAC with no grad students and the opportunity to continue to pursue athletic passions made the price tag worthwhile given our circumstances. If we had needed to take on debt, the result might have been different. |