Advice please for a lacrosse recruit

bellybones
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:21:47 +0000

The schools that comprise the NESCAC are hard to get into, just like the schools that comprise the Ivy League are hard to get into. Within each league, there are harder schools to get into (Harvard, Princeton, Amherst, Williams) and easier schools to get into (Brown, Cornell, Trinity, Bates, Connecticut College). I think it’s fair to say that the bottom of the Ivy League is a tougher admit than the bottom of the NESCAC. But all 11 NESCACs and all 8 Ivies are superb institutions with loads of smart kids and challenging professors.
I think the NESCAC is unique among D3 athletic conferences in that ALL the schools are top-tier academically. Other conferences aren’t as consistently high.