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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year 3 Princeton lacrosse recruits, another 4 at Penn were declined admission. All of them quietly "decommitted" and found other colleges. One of them was able to squeak into UVA late last spring, but another we know wound up at Loyola in MD which isn't a nearly as strong college. It's been spreading to some other elite colleges. Notre Dame is having problems with admissions for some recruits. Their top kid two years ago wound up having to PG at a boarding school and had to reapply. Duke has had their too recruit rejected in each of the past 4 years. Each time the kids had to go for a PG year and had to reapply. Lacrosse is a minor sport. The coaches have been intent to guide kids who weren't qualified on the academics, and now the admissions offices are saying no at a higher rate. Kids who are Ivy recruits in 9th and 10th grade should be scared straight to get top grades. I think for a lot of these kids the recruiting attention they get can be a good motivator to excel in the classroom. It won't be sad if they do cruise along and don't get in. There are lots of other qualified applicants to these colleges and lacrosse isn't very important to these top academic institutions. [/quote]

I agree with your sentiment but think you don't realize that Ivies do care about lacrosse because they care their alum.  Typically Ivy alums have given large sums of money. Many Alums DO care about lacrosse and alums that live lax tend to have lots of money. Go to any lacrosse game, whether at the school or at a national tourne,not, and you will seem loads of alums proudly wearing school colors and cheering madly.  [/quote]

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