KMom,
In the Northeast we are blessed with alot of good colleges that have respectible to excellent baseball programs. The main questions kids have to answer is where do they want to go to college from an academic standpoint. The next step is to research the school and see if there is an opportunity to play baseball. The goal is to find that match and this means alot of work on the research end and knocking on doors. The kid has to be realistic on most of the schools they go after, but have a few reach schools from both the academic and baseball perspective.
My son graduated with a 2.8 GPA and had 1220 on his original SAT's (660 math and 560 verbal). Baseball helped him get accepted to three schools in their engineering program and have a baseball opportunity (UMBC, Western New England and Ithaca). Two of the schools are D3 and the other is a D1. Two of these opportunities were created by knocking on doors and the third the coach came to see him play. He contacted the coaches, made unofficial visits and attended their camps. Ultimately he chose UMBC for the combination of academics and baseball.
On my son's varsity team this year 5 seniors are going on to play baseball. The schools are Western New England (2), Keene State, UMBC and MIT.