BishopLeftiesDad posted:old_school posted:solid list, from the research I have done there are some holes in it, in my opinion but still a real nice job!
my son was recruited or contacted by 6 of the schools on the list, visited 2 and ended up going to one not on the list...I honestly believe there is a lot of hair splitting when we talk about ranking colleges.
In general I agree. There are plenty of very good schools not on this list. For instance I would include Wabash in 'MY" list. It is an all male school in Indiana. They have struggled the last couple of years in baseball, so Massey might have them rated pretty low. But they just hired a Wabash alum away from DePauw. I believe he will do very well quickly. They have a large sophomore class, that saw a lot of playing time last year. They finished 17-23, they will be very good in the near future. They do not show up in WSJ list, not sure why.
Indeed!
As JCG pointed out, for some unknown reason, the WSJ college ranking excludes some very good academic schools. Mudd is one (but Claremont McKenna is high up there, so it's OK). They missed Wabash. And to my surprise, they missed ALL service academies, Air Force, Army, Marine, Coast Guard... (I would assume this is intentional -- how do you miss West Point accidentally?)
So here's what I'm gonna do. For the missing colleges, I'll use US News ranks, then find a similar ranked school in WSJ list, and use that rank. For example, Wabash is ranked #65 LAC on US News, the same as Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg is ranked 186 on WSJ list, so I'll put in 186 for Wabash as well. The result -- Wabash now ranked #74 on Academic-Baseball list!
Please let me know if you see a good Academic-Baseball school missing from the list. It's probably caused by data issues like this.