question about grades from real life exp.

Ivy league recruiting and admissions procedures differ from other D1s. in your case, both the academics and baseball stats are good enough for the Ivy League.

If a coach wants him, and assuming there are no red flags (e.g. disciplinary issues) admissions will admit him.

I agree with Goosegg.  In addition, if I was in your shoes I'd try to get your son in front of Stanford and other schools like it.  Based on his stats only, he'd have interest from Ivy, NESCAC, AUU as well as other academically focused schools.  

34 ACT and 4.3 GPA....no problem getting into any school with those numbers

I would agree. Excellent numbers!

Thanks for the responses, he is looking at a AUU and NESCAC schools, but a friend told us he should apply at a few Ivy's...  I'll be honest.....these schools are 8-12 hours away....  He feels he should go where he can play.  We are going to try and visit as many as we can , set up some appointments and visits...

We have an ex-Brandeis coach helping us get introduced to a few of these coaches.  It seems the recruiting is much different for these schools than the JUCO / D1 that I have exp. with.  He might have to do his own recruting, after all he is way more intelligent than I.

FWIW, kid on my sons HS/club team is 6'3" 185  85-88FB, nasty CB with 33ACT 4.5gpa received 75%$ to a top BIG10 school.

it's a no brainer for a coach..............

You touched on something here that I think needs to be called out.  Trust me, I understand the "8-12 hours" away statement only too well.   We thought it was going to be an issue with my son (as he is a homebody) but he thrived being away from home.   Truth is he was way too busy.  The baseball team and his classmates became his family.  Many of the conferences your son is considering (Ivy, NESCAC, AAU) recruit from across the country because of their admission requirements.  So, if your son is fortunate enough to go to one of these schools the chances are extremely good that his teammates will be from farther away (lots of CA and west coast guys), and his classmates from other countries.

My son also felt he should go to a school where he could play, otherwise his time could be put to better use academically.

We lived it for 4 years and it can be hard on the family and the student.  We got to most conference and weekend games as I used up my vacation time on Fridays.  There were parents (on both teams) that would routinely fly in from West Coast to East Coast to see their son's games.   You learn to adapt to his schedule and figure it out.   Remember with these academic schools the season is shorter.  It can be done.  I'm so glad we did it.

Good luck.

Your son wouldn't happen to live in Virginia, would he? 

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