D3 schools are very good academically. Currently the head coach for a very strong d3 program here runs a junior program that I am in. As I've gotten to work with him over the past two years, I have also increasingly learned more and more about d3 schools and tennis. The coach is the head men's coach at Case Western Reserve University. The program here is solid but not the top for d3. The team recently placed 3rd at the ita indoor nationals. Schools like university of Chicago l, Carnegie Mellon, and CWRU are all very strong academically and they target smart kids who are good enough to play college tennis but not good enough to play at a top academic school (Stanford, Harvard, and more). A perfect example of this is Emory university, in the spring they brought in three 4 star recruits. These players could play d1 tennis but not at a school as academically strong as Emory.