Thank you so much for all the responses! Such great advice! Keep it coming! 
(Re Michigan/CMU - Michigan is her dream school, so it will probably be the one ridiculous reach we leave on there because it is fun to throw money away. Hahaha. Seriously, though she strongly considered CMU for that exact reason (and we lived in Pittsburgh for 4 years and I love it!), but since they don’t offer much in the way of merit aid or post-GI bill scholarship aid, we would not be able to swing that financially. I should have mentioned that as a major factor in “the list”. I am spending a ridiculous amount of time making a spreadsheet that includes cost of attendance and types of aid at all these programs. Her dad is military and so we have some GI-bill money allotted to her, but there seems to a wide range in the way that can be used. I wouldn’t want to be in the situation where she was accepted to a favorite school but we couldn’t pay for it. We are not thinking this is a degree to take on a lot of debt for…)