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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder what the academic requirements are at places like Duke and Notre Dame (and UVA and Hopkins) for laxers.  These kids are committing as 15 years olds without any PSAT's or even many high school grades.  When these schools sign these kids, do they care about academics at all?  Do these kids have to keep grades up?  It's pretty obvious in the Ivies that they do, but at these other "highly academic" schools, I wonder.[/quote]

It has only been in the recent few years that kids were committed to a college verbally this young, and before they have any SAT scores or much of an academic record. The Ivies wait until after Soph year before any hardened up offers go out in general...although this year UPenn shook it up with 9th grade verbals.  Earlier in this threat what I wrote is what is understood to be correct...if you don't meet the academic standards outlined when you commit, the offer will be redacted. I have never been led to believe that admissions office or athletic department directors care too much at all about lacrosse or other non-revenue sports enough to waive poor applicants in. Ice hockey is different...some colleges treat that sport like their football...the one big time sport. In lacrosse, the only school that might apply to is Hopkins.

So yes, if the kid floats along and does not make grades he will find himself without the offer he once had...like two Landon laxers found out this year. Some college programs are also starting to selectively recruit less from the "lax bro" prep schools, including the ones local to DC. Not an unfair attack on any one local school...but now is a bad time to be a privileged DC area trust fund kid who plays lacrosse. That is the other thing...more and more these coaches care about recruiting kids who won't get them in the news or fired [/quote]

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