This is only for fun. If money, credentials & distance weren’t factors, where would you love your s/d to attend college. So, if the usual constraints didn’t exist what do you believe would be the place you’d love to see your son or daughter attend college. If needed, you can change your son or daughter’s strengths and interests too. {reminder: this is for the fun of it-let’s keep it light!).
Stanford!
For graduate school, University of Chicago.
College!
My daughters are college grads and I can’t imagine them having gone to schools other than the ones they ended up at it. They picked the schools they wanted and thrived. So I’ll say their second choices: Bennington and Pomona.
Davidson or Willaims for DD.
Juilliard or Curtis for DS.
My D2 is at her ideal school. She wouldn’t trade it for anything, and so far just wishes that she will never have to leave. Harder to say for D1, but I think Pomona would have been ideal. She would have needed better credentials, though. 
rosered55, you can include the ones they went to if they are the ones that you would have selected for them if there was a magic wand that put them exactly where you would have wanted them if they had a perfect fit with a school. In other words, independent of your offspring’s specifics, what do you view as the closest to a perfect school.
Williams or Amherst. Came pretty darned close. Waitlisted at W, and A wanted 5K more than we had to spend. Those were my preferences. DD is quite happy at her first choice school. 
My son has graduated from Northeastern and it worked out wonderfully. However, we live in Texas and he was accepted at UT. There is still a small part of me that wishes he would have been a Longhorn because we could have visited him so much more often than we were able to when he lived in Boston.
And now he (very happily) lives in NYC. I miss my son!
Cornell! For the breathtaking view of the lake from campus, and the freshly made ice cream at the dairy bar. Also good engineering.
IDK- there is no perfect school only really good fits.
Rockymtnhigh, ok so what would your dream school be then? Even if it isn’t a fit for your son or daughter. If you were to depict an ideal school in a film, what would it be?
Somewhere Hawaiian Airlines flies. Probably UW-Seattle, or UCSC.
Though actually, his school seems pretty perfect for him. I guess if money weren’t an issue, I could just fly first class, and pay for the best flights, so the airline wouldn’t matter so much.
The University of Michigan. It’s now my hope for my grandchildren since my children are done.
My mom, who met my father (now deceased) at the University of Chicago, would have been thrilled if one of her grandkids went to the U of C. My husband, also a U of C graduate, probably also would have been quite excited. Two of the five grandchildren applied there; one of the five (my younger daughter) was accepted. It seems much more appropriate for her as a grad school dream school.
Probably Stanford. But one kid didn’t apply to it.
I just asked D1. She said she wished she had gone to a women’s college. Wellesley or Scripps are the two she mentioned.
Brown or Bowdoin. Too bad they don’t offer merit aid.
On more than one occasion, I have said that if I could have hand picked the schools for my kids I would have picked exactly where they are: Scripps (D) and Harvey Mudd (S).
Why? Excellent schools, private, small class sizes (my experience was small and I loved it), not too far, safe town…I thought my D would do great at a woman’s college (but didn’t actually think she’d go for it, glad it was her idea), and my S has always been our “math and science guy”.
Of course, most important reason…it’s where they wanted to go.
Bonus? They are right across the street from each other!
(What mom wouldn’t love that?!)