The following won’t help for baseball. Not many players can go from D3 to D1, especially the Big Ten and ACC. It will help,academically.
The Penn State-**** and Pitt-**** schools are part of the state university system. The system has what is called the 2+2 plan. A student can go to a sub campus for two years, do well academically and transfer to Penn State or Pitt main campuses.