Engineering Schools with Baseball

I assume he is a 2017. Rose-hulman (Indiana I believe) is one of the country's premier engineering schools. Ratio of men/women skewed a bit.  If he wants a path which ends in a great job - though the school is in the northeast - the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (low end D3) in King's Point could be an option (or, even the other service academies [though those are D1)). Many D3s have 3-2 engineering programs which may or may not interest him.

Are you sure he isn't D1? His velo could be fine - especially if there appears more physical development may be coming.  If D1 is an option, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton produce baseball players who are also engineers (it's hard to do, but I know kids who graduated/will shortly graduate with engineering degrees).  The Patriot League - Bucknell for example - is also a possibility. His scores are good enough to pass admissions as a recruited player - and the Ivyies and Patriot leagues - haven't come close to finish recruiting for 2017s.

If he is a 2016, aren't you limited to the schools to which he applied? If so, which schools have offered him admission?

DKRAUS,

As you are discovering, there is no easy button when it comes to baseball and engineering.....in my experience there will be trade offs and/or compromises.  It sounds to me like you've discovered this.  

First, in our experience there were a lot more options in the Northeast however those are mostly private schools.  The southern schools that had engineering were mostly large state schools and therefore D1 schools.  So when you say south exactly what do you mean?  Southeast, southwest?  You've mentioned your son's requirements for baseball, what about engineering requirements?  Are you looking for a particular field of engineering or a nationally top ranked engineering program?  I'd strongly encourage you to look at engineering schools and then look to see if they have a baseball team....this will simplify your search.

Good luck and let me know if I can help in any way!

In D3, Washington and Lee, Trinity (Tx) are the ones that come to mind that have engineering. Many others in D3 have 3/2 or 4/1 programs. 

Rose-Hulman, While not really south is located in Terre Haute Indiana. So I would not consider it north east, more mid west. If you can live with Ohio weather there is also Ohio Northern. Their baseball team is full of Engineering Majors. If you want warm weather check out Harvey Mudd College. It is one of the Claremont schools and combines with other colleges to form the Claremont - Mudd - Scripps baseball team. 

https://www.hmc.edu/

http://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/bsb/index

And if your son is truly elite when it comes to Academics there is Cal Tech. Although historically their sports programs do not do well. But hey who goes to Cal Tech to win in sports. 

I thought Emory had one but they are a 3-2. 

This is an old thhread and It is from a Lacrosse site but it may give some in sight.

http://network.laxpower.com/la...;t=40099&start=0

Here is an old thread from College Confidential.

http://network.laxpower.com/la...;t=40099&start=0

Good Luck in your search. 

I sent you a PM DKraus, look at the upper right hand of your screen and click on your name and look for "Private Messages".

How about D2?  UCSD - high academic, top engineering school, D2 baseball.

Thanks for all the input.  CalTech had contacted him, he was concerned about the "whole" college experience as their student body was only 1000 kids.  He is a 2016 grad but i thought that if there was a school that wanted him he could get in despite not applying (i guess i might be wrong here).  We had talked to RoseHulman but believe it or not we were too late - they had capped admissions.  He has been accepted to Texas A&M (obviously just academics) but just seeing if we've missed something.  It may all be too late at this stage.

Had not thought about UCSD, thanks

What about Harvey Mudd?  Small school, but not really as it's part of one community with the other Claremont colleges. I believe we have a user whose son is headed there soon, so he may chime in.

Some good feedback already.  There are a lot of options, from the more technically oriented schools (e.g., RPI, Rose Hulman, CalTech, Florida Institute of Technology, et.al.) to colleges with more limited engineering offerings (e.g., Trinity TX, Trinity CT, Lafayette, et.al.). 

As a former electrical engineering major and a hiring manager of thousands of engineers over time, I'll add that computer science can be an awesome path too, and one that is more widely available including at many liberal arts colleges.

As Fenway notes, there are tradeoffs.  Not a ton of engineering majors on baseball rosters.

Your son is a 2016 like mine. HM is not an option at this point. My son was verbaled there contingent upon getting through admissions. He ended up not getting admitted even when he was on the coaches supported list. UCSD is also done with their recruiting except for maybe a stud pitcher. They too have already sent out their admissions. My son like yours will be majoring in engineering. He was accepted into some very good schools UCLA, UCSD as well as AF Academy. Wherever he goes he will attempt to walk on. He has decided on the academy and has started his campaign of trying to get the attention of the Head coach.  I've got to believe that with those types of scores your son has already applied to many schools and have been accepted to some of them? It seems a little late to be asking these questions.  

Standballdad makes a good point. It's late!  BTW my eldest is an engineering student at UCSB and he has friends who play club baseball at both his school and Cal Poly and love it.  That's another way to stay in the game.

You pretty much have everyone that was on my son's list. UCSD is likely not an option due to cost and lack of scholarship $$ since you are out of state. It looks like you are from San Antonio and likely Trinity is too close to home but they have an amazing new engineering facility, which you are probably aware of. If my son got into Cal Tech I would highly encourage him to go there, that is a life changing school. It is possible to get into Mudd by going to Claremont and keeping a min 3.0 in their eng management program and then finish at Mudd. It is not too late if you had been in contact with schools and baseball programs, but out of the blue it is too late IMO.

Good Luck! 

My son is a 2017, but otherwise sounds like an almost identical situation for him lies ahead.  Will graduate as 17 year old, so he is at a bit of a disadvantage physically.  Almost 6' tall but struggles to stay above 170.  He is positive he wants to do mechanical engineering, so we've gone through the same search for engineering schools that have baseball programs that are not part of the elite D1s, and then expanded to D2 (where we have found few matches beyond UC-San Diego) and D3.

One site I found helpful in building the list is this one:

http://best-engineering-colleges.com/

I am not sure how accurate their rankings are, but what is really nice is that you can sort for engineering schools by state and see how they are ranked by state and within the region and nationally.  As you scroll down the lists, once you see the engineering programs number dwindling, then you know they do not really specialize with engineering.

Then you can compare engineering schools with the various lists out there for baseball programs.  This one has a good list of all D1 programs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._I_baseball_programs

Good luck with the search, and come back to this forum to let us know where he ends up.  You are not alone in facing these issues so it helps the rest of us to learn from others experience.

I had suspected it was late at this point, just thought i'd throw it out there for any last ideas.  He will likely try walking on or playing club ball.  His academics are top priority.

standballdad posted:

Your son is a 2016 like mine. HM is not an option at this point. My son was verbaled there contingent upon getting through admissions. He ended up not getting admitted even when he was on the coaches supported list. UCSD is also done with their recruiting except for maybe a stud pitcher. They too have already sent out their admissions. My son like yours will be majoring in engineering. He was accepted into some very good schools UCLA, UCSD as well as AF Academy. Wherever he goes he will attempt to walk on. He has decided on the academy and has started his campaign of trying to get the attention of the Head coach.  I've got to believe that with those types of scores your son has already applied to many schools and have been accepted to some of them? It seems a little late to be asking these questions.  

Good stuff! (The Right Stuff)

It's really late for acceptance to college. At this point any interested D3 would tell your son, sure walk on. It's a crap shoot. The coach has already recruited the six to eight studs he was looking for.

You might want to consider club baseball at Texas A&M. Club teams don't travel as far as varsity programs. Homework and grades is more of a priority than baseball. At a school like Texas A&M the team might be a bunch of players who tried to walk on or washed out of the program and didn't transfer. In other words, reasonably talented.

Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1:

http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/

Trine in Angola, Indiana, is another engineering D3. It's about 30 minutes from Fort Wayne, 1 hour Toledo and 1 1/2 hours from Detroit. A lot of guys on the baseball team are studying either Engineering or Business.