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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't gone through the recruiting stuff for my daughter yet, but I do have a son who is at a school that is good academically and for lacrosse and got offers from several of the top schools. I'll branch the top schools into a few similar groups: Ivy League Schools, Non-Ivy Elite Privates (Duke, JHU, ND, GTown), High State Schools (UVA, UNC, Michigan), and Service Academies (USAFA, USNA, USMA are the D1 ones)

Ivies:
Check the academic index. Generally shoot for a 1370+ SAT. 3.7-3.8 UW should be good enough but they like as close to a 4.0 as you can get. For guys lacrosse Harvard, Yale, and Princeton had the highest academic criteria, Penn had a slightly lower bar with the exception of Wharton, and then Dartmouth and Brown, and then Cornell. From what o ne of the Cornell coach told my son, depending on what school at Cornell he applied to, coach said the SAT could be low to mid 1200s with a 3.5 UW GPA. They also (with the exception of some of the schools in Cornell) expect that the rigor that the student takes should be very high. Regarding course rigor, Ivies expect very high course rigor. From my experience, kids who are getting recruited to the HYPs are people who could get into schools like UVA and UNC on their own academic merit.

Non-Ivy Elite Schools:
Now my son didn't get an offer from Duke and we didn't have too much interaction with the coaches, so I'm not going to act like I know everything, but from what we've heard, if you have a pulse, they'll take you. One of DS's friends who got an offer was TO and had a 3.6 UW and he did not have very much course rigor.

JHU also is a step below the Ivies and for most majors, academic selection is a step above Duke. Generally ~3.5 UW with some honors and APs should do the trick. Although, quick note for JHU, if your DD wants BME, they're on their own for that application process. Lacrosse just gets them into the school, not into their preferred major. In fact, we have a family friend who was all set on JHU but chose to commit elsewhere due to the uncertainty around getting BME.

GTown also has a pretty low bar. They like students who get mixed A's and B's, but if you hit C's, that's when recruiting there get's a little hard. But course rigor didn't seem too important to the coaches we talked with at GTown.

State Schools:
Now if we're looking at something like UMD, Penn State, or Rutgers (all of which are great schools), course rigor doesn't matter and grades don't matter too much if we're being honest. But if we look at UVA or UNC, selection criteria is similar to GTown.[/quote]

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