Help with Schools

University of Rochester - top research school...same conference (UAA) as Chicago and Emory...has won uaa last two years.
Also competes in the Liberty League

JohnnyAppleseed,

There is a lot of wisdom & experience on this website. You need to tap into that knowledge. You will get a lot of help if you can tell us what your baseball and academic goals are as well as any major or area of study. Are you leaning toward D1 or D3 baseball for example....would help us a lot to help you. Thanks.

If you are looking for top academic schools, a good place to look for a list is the schools that attend the Headfirst showcases, www.playheadfirst.com . This will give you a good starting point of mostly top academic D1 and D3 schools. The summer showcases on the east coast are the most popular and will show the largest number of schools, although the TX and CA showcases also have some real great schools. You can then go through this list of schools to see which meet your son's needs from a academic and baseball stand point.

http://collegesearch.collegebo...com/search/index.jsp

Go to the link, use the college matchmaker. Sounds corny, but the data is quite good. You can specify a sport, and varsity level, and D1,2 or 3, or all. You can specify colleges with a particular major (eg. accounting). It will give you a list of all the schools meeting your criteria, and allow you to sort it. Try sorting by declining math or verbal SAT scores. That will give you a rough academic ranking of the schools. You'll find you can spend a lot of time looking around at this.

Thanks for the help. Fenway I was looking at business or economics. I've already eliminated some of the schools off the original list because I realized that didn't have the major I was looking for. In terms of athletic ability, it would probably be either a low level D1 or below. Like I said before, any schools you might suggest to take a look at I will, I was going to do all the sorting out and everything afterwards; I don't need people doing my college search for me, just suggestions. I am currently a JUCO sophomore so that showcase is not a possibility. Pedro I actually used that to help me making the list, but thanks for the help.

Johnny,

Some of the schools you listed on your original list don't take JUCO transfers.

Which ones? I looked them up again and the only I saw that may have a problem is Pomona because it only accepts 16 credits. I looked on college board and most said they accept credits from 2 year institutions.

Johnny,

There are so many ways to do this. If you were my son, we would be starting with the academics and then focusing on athletics. Birdman14 and Pedropere have selected this method as well, and given you excellent advice in terms where to start. I will add my two cents here, but I would start with the College Select process that pedropere outlined. That would be my top level search process, and I would continue to come back to it. As birdman14 suggests, HeadFirst is a great event & list of schools to consider. I'm most familiar with HeadFirst, as my son got a bunch of interest generated from that camp two years ago. It was very worthwhile.

You want to focus on the baseball search. Since you have self evaluated your talent to low D1 and below. Let's start there. You can look at Boyd's which ranks the 301 D1 schools in the county. From those RPI and ISR rankings you can focus on schools 150-301 to determine if they have business & economics, and a suitable geography for you. http://www.boydsworld.com/. You can then cross reference these with the about mentioned College Search engine. I would also go to http://www.d1baseball.com/ for more detail about teams, & conferences.

I would also go to www.d3baseball.com to look at whatever schools interest you by geography. You can then cross reference these with the about mentioned College Search engine.

I would also think about your top level goals, and strategy. For example, your strategy could be to "use baseball as a means to transfer into the best business & economics school possible. You want to play D1 baseball west of the Mississippi". Think long and hard about this, because it is going to be 2 years of your life. You also have to factor in your academic workload with what the athletic workload will be. Make sure your have a workable balance there, because you are coming into a new program as a junior.

As you think things through and gather more information, please feel free to post or PM me. You have a lot of folks here who have been through this and may know something about the baseball program you are considering.

Let us know how you progress.

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Originally posted by johnny appleseed:
Which ones? I looked them up again and the only I saw that may have a problem is Pomona because it only accepts 16 credits. I looked on college board and most said they accept credits from 2 year institutions.

I guess I have to qualify my statement, one of the IVY League coaches told me they don't look at JC transfers. Check the rosters, to see what type of players they have.

Good Luck.