In general, medium to large schools highly preferred and in a urban/semi-urban area; diversity also a priority. His HS is around 3000 students and he’s opposed to a college/university that is smaller than that size (I think Brown is just around that size). We visited a small LAC (around 1500 students) in Pennsylvania and it was beautiful but he couldn’t get over how small it felt (and surrounding area was also very small town feel). I think he’d want to continue debate in college if available - which is more of a thing in the northeast, I realize. But, debate is not a major/career and he’s also quite interested in writing (not creative), cultural studies, and film (theory/analysis, not production) so SoCal/NY becomes a geographic pull for that last area of interest. So he’s kind of all over the place. We’re aware of LAC’s in California like Claremont schools and Oxy and could consider - but I think if any of the top 7 UC’s and UW are a real option (and I think they are - I forgot UCSB earlier but it’s on the list) then it’s hard to compete with them based on cost/diversity/general offerings. Kickstart bumped up the score/grade for our list to B- after we added CU Boulder and UCSB, so I think we’re getting there as to our list. 