Ursinus, on the outskirts of Philadelphia? (Scholarship for writing + 1 student gets to have Salinger’s room, special program for Masters)
I think St Joe’s, in Philly, has a creative writing major.
Loyola Maryland?
Chatham has a lovely campus in the Shadyside neighborhood in Pittsburgh and a full major.
St Joe’s only offers a creative writing minor. The minor is 7 classes, 3 of which are common core classes.
https://academiccatalog.sju.edu/arts-sciences/english/minor-creative-writing/#requirementstext
ETA: Southern Oregon U offers BFA in creative writing.
Ashland, OR is also home to Oregon Shakespeare Festival which premiesr several new, original plays every year.
There is summer program for aspiring high school actors/writers/directors/producers at the Shakespeare Festival which a friend of D2’s call a “transformative experience”. He still has friends from the summer program. He’s currently a producer at Netflix.
Boise State U has a very highly regarded creative writing program.
It offers BA, BFA and MFA in creative writing.
https://www.boisestate.edu/tfcw-creativewriting/
It also offers BA, BFA programs in Film and Television Writing
There is an artist is residence program, the spring Storyfort Festival to showcase student work, and is home to the Idaho Review and Free Poetry Chapbook series.
University of Iowa is great, however, it’s acceptance rate for writing program applicants is very low. It’s the number 2 school in the country for creative writing. Much lower acceptance than its general rate.
I know a sophomore in Denison’s creative writing major. She loves it!
Iowa is great for creative writing. Iowa admits by school, but not major…so anyone who wants to be a creative writing major at Iowa would apply to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
With regard to acceptance rates, you may be thinking of Iowa’s MFA program/two year Writers’ Workshop.
Interesting - is there a separate admission process for English/creative writing on the undergraduate level, or does the university admit by major? The Iowa Writers Workshop MFA program is clearly very selective, but that’s on the graduate level. I haven’t found specific information about selectivity on the undergrad level, but perhaps I’m missing it.
Edit: Looks like I am wrong here. But leaving original post for clarity. I am firm that the high school intensive and MFA are competitive but it seems that the BA is just the acceptance rate for the CLAS. A great bet for sure then.
My understanding is that admission to a college does not guarantee admission to a major? And that the Creative Writing Major is new for undergraduates. It started in 2016, I believe. And that the program exploded exponentially each year. They also offer a writer’s workshop for high school students as a pre-program, which is one of the most popular and difficult to get into as well.
I see. I was under the impression that this was not the case. My apologies.
SOU is a fantastic idea!
University of Iowa may work very well: it’s test optional for admissions (test scores can be replaced with an essay) but she only needs 1230 for that to be converted to a 26 for the automatic admission process - if her RAI is 255, she’s in, and I think with a solid curriculum, a 3.36 Gpa and a 26 ACT, she’d be well-above the cut-off. She’d apply, be admitted automatically, would apply to honors with a strong essay, and have an admission before school starts. 
https://www.iowaregents.edu/institutions/higher-education-links/regent-admission-index/rai-calculator
Even better: if I understand right, the Honors College is test blind - the essay is the essential part of acceptance, which means it’d totally play to your daughter’s strengths!
We loved that we knew right away if S23 was in at IOWA and ISU. As long as the meet the RAI you are in. You’ll get a letter in the mail a few weeks later. Plus, they open up the application super early, so you can know either before schools starts or just a few weeks into your senior year. It took so much pressure off.
Iowa public universities have had automatic admission since the 1950s. The philosophy is if they think you can succeed in college, they will accept you. Their admissions transparency makes them look less selective than they really are, but as a parent, I really appreciate the zero stress process.
For Iowa, UNI, and Iowa State, if you’re reporting test scores, they will automatically admit based on self-reported grades/scores if you meet the RAI threshold. What most people don’t realize is they will send an email with the acceptance within about an hour. My son received his acceptance to Iowa State within one minute of applying. Most people don’t open that email because they assume it’s just confirming receipt of the application.
And the video sent by Iowa State was definitely the best acceptance of the cycle.
If you want to be a writer, do NOT major in creative writing in undergrad. Major in English or Comparative Literature or History or Classics or Philosophy or Physics or… you get the point. But no need to major in Creative Writing as an 18 to 22 year old. You’ll become a much stronger writer by reading the classics in any humanities discipline than by reading mediocre prose written by other 20 year olds in a creative writing class.
^ That’s not how a creative writing major works. All majors include A LOT of reading across genres, eras, and cultures.
At Iowa, half the major includes literature courses, for instance.
All creative writing professors understand that you need that background to write well. But they also understand that to improve your writing, you need to write.
Similarly, Bennington has an alternative application option called the Dimensional Application:
https://www.bennington.edu/admissions/apply/dimensional-application
This might be something to explore for your daughter. We loved our visit to Bennington.
Is this true about IOWA for undergrad too? I know the MGA program is famous.
Thank you! Last summer we looked at Emerson. Looked great to me, but my daughter didn’t like the feel of it and didn’t like Boston. We looked at Wheaton too, which she really liked!
Not for undergrad.
For undergrad Arts&Sciences there’s an automatic admission system (link provided upthread) and your daughter would qualify with a 1230 SAT, a 3.36 GPA, and 20 academic classes (college prep, regular, accelerated, honors, AP…) ie., 5 a year (out of a typical 6 or 7 period HS day - more courses increase her index score).
In addition, admission to Honors College (=smaller classes and other perks) is essay-based which would be perfect for her. 
Understood. I hope she’ll take lot of other courses and leave her options open if something else grabs her. I got an MFA in the 90s and I think there was less emphasis on craft then (we read no books on craft and it really wasn’t discussed, except a little in the fiction classes.) Mostly it was just lots of opinions from peers, many without much of a clue. We will definitely check out how writing is being taught and what other courses would be part of a creative writing major.