JCG posted:RJM is dead on. Look at it this way, would you rather see your kid go to one of the top 10 schools on that list, or would you rather seem him go to a school like Caltech, which I know without looking is near the bottom?
But you can try to have both, to a certain extent. We have a user who, before his kid's baseball career came to an end, tried to aggregate baseball quality and academic quality on one list. It's pretty good.
That list is handy. There are plenty of schools in the top half of that list that I would be happy if my son attended! He's in the "let baseball open college doors" camp rather than the "let college open baseball doors" camp. He has made it clear he has no interest in playing baseball for a safety school (or worse). If it came to that, he has said he would hang up his cleats and go to the best college he could get into based solely on his academics.