D3 Academic-Baseball Ranking (2018 edition)

A slip....Clemson at #93..... (!)

I tried to see if there was another Clemson (College?) but nothing came up.

Bogey, cool that you did this again...

At first glance, something that strikes me as odd...  schools ranked 1,2,4,5 and 6 academically don't even make the list and schools ranked 1 thru 7 for baseball don't make the list.  What can you tell us?

Thanks for putting this together. Fwiw, Rutgers and Clemson are D1. And St. John's could be D3 or D1, depending on whether you mean the school in MN or NY.

keewart posted:

A slip....Clemson at #93..... (!)

I tried to see if there was another Clemson (College?) but nothing came up.

Thanks for pointing that out. For some reason "Coast Guard Academy" is matched with "Clemson". It's corrected now.

cabbagedad posted:

Bogey, cool that you did this again...

At first glance, something that strikes me as odd...  schools ranked 1,2,4,5 and 6 academically don't even make the list and schools ranked 1 thru 7 for baseball don't make the list.  What can you tell us?

In WSJ/THE ranking, the top academic schools are mostly D1 Ivies. Only MIT (3), Caltech (7), UChicago (11), WashingtonU (11), Emory (19) are D3s in the top 20.

The top 7 baseball program from the MasseyRatings are Cal Lutheran, LaGrange, Birmingham Southern, UT Tyler, Wisconsin-Whitewater, SUNY Cortland, and Centenary. Unfortunately these schools don't rank high enough in academics to make the list.

trchala posted:

Thanks for putting this together. Fwiw, Rutgers and Clemson are D1. And St. John's could be D3 or D1, depending on whether you mean the school in MN or NY.

Corrected. Clemson should have been "Coast Guard." Rutgers should be Rutgers-Newark. St. John's is the one in MN.

Thanks Bogey!

Bogey, I can't tell you how helpful this list is.  Great for my son to see in black and white.  He was shocked by MIT, and was also happily surprised by how many other great options met his academic/athletic goals.

Thanks for putting the list together!!

I agree with others.  This is a great resource, and you've provided the index numbers so people can modify as necessary.   This would have been most helpful 9 years ago ;-) when oldest son started looking and trying zero in on engineering schools and baseball.  I noticed 7 out of the top 15 schools on your list had met my son face to face and were communicating with him via phone or email.  IMHO this tells me these D3 coaches are looking at really talented baseball players and outstanding students considering both D1 and D3 programs as my son was. 

Great Job Bogey, 

This is a great snap shot. I look forward to see how it changes form year to year. It will be interesting to track this over the years and See how teams move up and down on the list. Teams that are historically good at both academics and baseball should rise to the top. 

I have uploaded a spreadsheet with the average ratings (Massey end of season) for all D3 baseball programs for the period 2012-2017. Below are the top 25.

http://community.hsbaseballweb...ngsd3-2012-2017-xlsx

BishopLeftiesDad posted:

Great Job Bogey, 

This is a great snap shot. I look forward to see how it changes form year to year. It will be interesting to track this over the years and See how teams move up and down on the list. Teams that are historically good at both academics and baseball should rise to the top. 

Middlebury will be moving up..

Williams and Amherst right next to each other in your rankings, Bogey -- more fuel for that rivalry! ;-)

2019Dad posted:

Williams and Amherst right next to each other in your rankings, Bogey -- more fuel for that rivalry! ;-)

Middlebury is right next to them as well ... and with @Gov 's kid joining, they may surpass Williams and Amherst next year

Overall, NESCAC schools ranked really well. I think people already know this, but it's good to have data behind the "hunch."

Bogeyorpar posted:

2019Dad posted:

Williams and Amherst right next to each other in your rankings, Bogey -- more fuel for that rivalry! ;-)

Middlebury is right next to them as well ... and with @Gov 's kid joining, they may surpass Williams and Amherst next year

Overall, NESCAC schools ranked really well. I think people already know this, but it's good to have data behind the "hunch."

LOL... that would be great!  Smoke won't like that.  Midd's HC Leonard seems to have picked up some solid players for 2017 and 2018's class.  Really looking forward to seeing how all of this pans out...  Leonard is determined to make a Midd baseball statement.

We'll have to have some gentleman's wagers, create our own trophy of sorts?

Middlebury is already banging on the door.  It was just one win away from regionals last year, before dropping two to Tufts.

MidAtlanticDad posted:

I have uploaded a spreadsheet with the average ratings (Massey end of season) for all D3 baseball programs for the period 2012-2017. Below are the top 25.

http://community.hsbaseballweb...ngsd3-2012-2017-xlsx

Sorry, earlier post had bad 2017 data. I have replaced with correct version.

Thanks for sharing. My daughter just applied to Washington U. in St. Louis, but she's not a baseball player (or fan)...

Sadly, proudly, insanely...that's probably more like it.  We've visited 75 of the 100 schools.

Better than none. While not all these schools are hard to get into, I applaud any young man or women who attends any of these schools. Even the ones that are easier to get into, are many times difficult to Graduate from. Especially when Athletics or other extracurricular activities are thrown in. (and hanging out at the bar is not an approved extracurricular activity. )