Obviously Hopkins is a better academic school and to some degree that limits your pool; but Petro had no problem whatsoever getting in whoever he wanted.Gatsby wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:43 pmHmm, now that's an interesting question.jhu06 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:31 am Petro had top 5 and usually top 3 and sometimes top 1 classes annually over his tenure at Hopkins which is a much more difficult place to recruit students to and get them to maintain success on and off the field. I don't know your program well enough but I don't think recruiting will be an issue.
For roughly the same tuition and lacrosse prominence, JHU is a better academic school. Although Baltimore gets dumped on, I'd say it has a preferable location and Maryland has a more temperate climate than upstate NY.
Syracuse has a little more success on the field recently, may have a perceived funner way of playing, and may have an edge in student perception of a fun school and has more big-time sports teams.
I wouldn't say Hopkins is a much more difficult place to recruit students to than Syracuse.
I think there are several factors that make Cuse a tougher place to recruit than Hopkins and other elite schools - weather, not as good academically as some of the ACC's or Hopkins, and they haven't won as much lately to appeal in the "just come here to hone your craft and win" pitch Maryland has - but also a lot of that is probably just Desko being straight up bad at recruiting at then. How Gait recruits will tell us more