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[quote=Anonymous]Sports parents today in the muck of early recruiting in many sports aren't hit yet by the reality.

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/lacrosse.html

This is 2014, and pretty recent, and is only for men's and women's lacrosse. If you look at this, and then also consider that lacrosse is the second lowest yield sport in NCAA sports behind ice hockey (NCAA GIA scholarship limits / average roster sizes), it's pretty sobering. When you read this, take note of the footnote in terms of average athletic scholarships

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(2) Average Athletic Scholarship is the average amount of athletically related student aid per athlete for ALL varsity sports sponsored by the specific school. Some athletes receive full awards, some receive partial and many receive none. Additionally some sports within a school may be fully funded, some partially and some sports provide no athletic scholarships. Private schools generally have higher tuition than public schools and the average award will reflect this.

For lacrosse, that means the math drives lower and is also subject to NCAA rules which cap the number of student athletes who can receive grant-in-aid for non-football teams to 30. So any lacrosse roster in the NCAA over 30 has that many minus 30 who receive no GIA money at all, and the average is about 30% as a percentage of tuition and student fees, but not boarding, meals or other expense.

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*"NCAA Division I men's Lacrosse teams have an average roster size of 45 players but only a maximum of 12.6 scholarships to award per team. This means that the average award covers less than 30% of a typical athlete's annual college costs. Lacrosse is an equivalency sport for NCAA limits, so partial scholarships can be awarded (up to 30 per team in NCAA I) as long as the combined equivalent awards do not exceed the limit. For example, an NCAA Division I school can award 24 women lacrosse players each a 1/2 scholarship and still meet the limit of 12 per team."

Getting committed is great for kids to be able to reserve a roster spot to play college sports, which can be very rewarding in ways other than money taking as given it is not much rewarding on the money side so far as GIA money is concerned. It's also a great way to leverage up chances at a reach school a kid may otherwise not get into. That said, the current spoliation rate for Ivy recruits in men's lacrosse was about 25% last year. The coaches are marked when their sponsor candidates are not admitted, and this data blind to specific identities is also shared among the other institutions in the league in order to do an ongoing analysis of AI standards and admissions trends. That is straight from an Ivy AD to me, so not b.s. but this isn't something widely published. What is published each late spring or summer are kids changing their commitment from an Ivy to another school, which is often the private outcome of admissions declines.

Kids and parents need to be aware that the financial rewards have limitations, and the veracity of verbals to highly selective schools is also subject to academic standards that are limiting where academic performance is absent despite the enthusiasm of coaches sponsoring admissions folders.[/quote]

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