Thank you all for your suggestions and information! It’s incredibly helpful.
Basically, she does not want an academic environment that consumes all of her time. She has anxiety and likes to have plenty of “chill” time in her day where she can decompress instead of constantly being on the go. She took lots of honors classes early in her HS career (her teachers recommend her for them every year) but found the pace of the classes and the level of homework too stressful. It’s not the she couldn’t keep up academically, she just didn’t want to.
She’s waffled between classical studies and general history recently, but suddenly she’s undecided again. When at Beloit, our tour guide was an anthropology major and talked a lot about how fantastic their program is, so part of me suspects that piqued her interest in the subject. Generally, though, she’ll go somewhere along the humanities route; nothing pre-preprofessional and unlikely to be STEM.
I agree, and I’m always surprised that she hasn’t removed them from contention. LSU is close to grandparents, and our tour guide was LGBTQ and only had fantastic things to say about the school and the area. UK was the very first school we visited. Hubs and I decided to take her there on a whim (she had no specific interest) because we figured it was no loss if she hated it. We just wanted her to get a feel for college tours. But the campus shows so well and she was really impressed. I do feel, though, that a second tour is in order because now she has a better understanding of what she’s looking for. Also, I highly doubt LSU and UK will offer the kind of merit we’ll need to make them affordable…
What is the town/area like? Seems kinda small in my online research, but that doesn’t always give the full picture.