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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why a parent from a great private school would want their kid to play D-I. It's a profession at that level now. Your kid should be doing homework and having a great college experience. [/quote]

They want Ivy League.  Division I but academically prestigious.  Except for a few who think the Ivy League isn't good enough athletically and pine away for Stanford.

It's worse in some sports than others.  In this area, it's lacrosse.  In the mid-to-late 1980s any starter for a strong IAC lacrosse school like St. Albans or a strong ISL school like St. Agnes/NCS/Sidwell (all strong in that time period, you can look it up) could make an Ivy League roster for men's and women's lacrosse.  A lot of regional expectations about lacrosse developed then.  It is still much easier to get a Division I slot in lacrosse from this area than something like basketball (although scholarship aid is generally all partial -- lacrosse is limited to 12 scholarships for a "fully funded program" and rosters of men's teams typically top 40 in number, 30+ for women's teams), but it is nothing like it was 30 years ago or even 20.  To a certain extent colleges adding teams in lacrosse is opening up slots, so a Landon or Prep still has a ton of Division I signees, but, again, don't expect much money.

Interestingly, one of the reasons Ivy League sports are doing well right now (Harvard in basketball, Yale won ice hockey national championship last year, strong Ivy League men's lacrosse, etc.) is that the Ivies have adopted some aid policies that effectively allow them to give full rides to athletes who come from families with incomes below something like $60-70,000 a year.  It's been a literal game-changer for them in recruiting.[/quote]

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