Regarding the Ivies, the coaches may not have a good idea who is going to get accepted. One coach told my son he’d had kids accepted with lower grades and SATs then my son had but he'd also had kids with perfect SATs not accepted. What they are looking for can change from year to year and there are a lot of factors that go into the admission decision when you have so many kids applying. If you can play baseball and are within a reasonable academic range they will encourage you to apply. You can get word a little sooner by applying early acceptance, but otherwise you have to wait until Feb. to find out if you are in. Meanwhile, other academic schools that may be a stretch for you may only have a few spots and they will ask you to commit before they can go to bat for a kid with Admissions. One coach from a very good academic school told me that the first seven kids he tried to help get into the school were all denied admission.

Still the lure of a Harvard or Yale can be enough for a kid to wait for the decision before committing some where. My son did it last year and his buddy was in the same situation with MIT.

If you are interested in playing in the northeast, try contacting some of the coaches at the schools you are interested in. What level are you looking to play at?

lookin to play at small DI or DII, more specifically around boston or new york

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One coach told my son he’d had kids accepted with lower grades and SATs then my son had but he'd also had kids with perfect SATs not accepted.

You sure he didn't just mean that non-athlete applicants were getting rejected despite perfect scores? I find it hard to believe that recruited athletes with perfect SATs are going to be rejected by the school they're being recruited, unless they have bad grades or have a criminal record...

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Some schools don't give prefrence to Athletes. Or they may consider an players potential contibution to the school's athletics like one minor factor in the whole admissions puzzel. Some top schools like MIT or Harvard don't have a say in who gets admitted. They have to encourage kids who can play to apply and hope they get admitted. In other schools the coach gets some influance and in other they get a set # of spots that they can recruit with as long as a kid is within a certain academic range.

All recruited athletes do not carry equal weight with admissions.

It's been my experience that how much the coach wants to fight for you is the defining element in whether you are accepted or not. That being said, not all coaches have the same pull at their respective universities.

GPA and test scores required for admission are generally on a sliding scale relative to BA and/or ERA. This is the determining factor of how far out on that limb the coach is willing to extend himself.

That being said, all coaches are self preservationists. With APR requirements what they are today, unless you're Florida State, most coaches are going to take a very close look at you and assess for themselves whether you can cut it there academically. The more skeptical they are about your ability to keep up, the less likely they are to expose themselves on your behalf.