I went to HS in suburban Philadelphia & competed in the old ECAC (eastern collegiate athletic conf) so I know the area & the schools well & DD's God Father lives only 20 min from the fields
DD is a '15 & attends a "Ivy Mill" school here in SoCal where besides having the #1 baseball & water polo teams in the Country (& 25 other sports teams), also has over 20%+ matriculation rate to Ivies. She has her 4 schools where she believes she can play at & wants all of them there to see her at once, been emailing all 4 who have also shown interest back based upon all the usual criteria(HS Stats, TB teams, PGF stats, OnDeck camp invite etc). Her HS team has sent 1 player a year to IL in the last 2 years & has another who graduates this year. Her Dean (public school equivalent of a guidance counselor) assures us her current scores meet the Academic Index & admissions dept knows the school well as every Ivy gets both grads & most get student athletes every year. So she's at the the sniper stage opposed to the shotgun & also feels it doesn't matter which of the 4 schools she'll end up at as she believes she'll be happy at any of them. That's come from me as I've been on over 60 campus's around the country & with the video age a prospective student can get an idea of the campus which we never had. She has her #1 so we'll see what happens.
What really catches my eye about the entire Pennsbury scene (2 camps) is the small number of players & large number of schools. When I look at say.... Zoom into June which is no doubt a blockbuster coach loaded showcase her in SoCal it's drawback is it has a ton of teams, spread out & a kid really has to be on a coaches radar all ready to even get seen, unless of course they are on that big name, high profile team playing on the right fields where the coaches are. Then again, IMO most SoCal kids aren't pursuing the East Coast schools (I have no idea why other than distance) but gladly accept any offer from any school anywhere which suddenly becomes their "dream school" when discovered here in Cali, or Colorado.
"It's not giving up if you discover you've been chasing the wrong destiny" -Morley LA street artist who posted this on Melrose Avenue in Jan '14