She may apply to UMN but my wife is very anxious about the issues they are having with crime. Also my daughter really wants the college campus experience which she loves at Madison and Rice, the urban feel at UMN isn’t as appealing to her.
She isn’t married to the Midwest, just haven’t looked at the coasts. She thinks NYC is too big and our one rule is that we need to be able to get there on a direct flight from Minneapolis or have a reasonable drive. Some of the New England colleges seem to be difficult to get to (like Vermont for example).
I’m not familiar with Fordham, will check it out. Michigan sounds like an amazing school but we get tuition reciprocity at Madison and it feels like they’d be similar but maybe I’m wrong? Certainly more difficult to get in to and I don’t want to load her up with a ton of rejections.