<p>If your D wants a city, a certain size school, a certain region of the country, to have ballet classes or ballet dance groups available, and has a GPA below 3.3, you might want to encourage her to not be so quick to take off viable options without seeing them. When creating a college list, and having college criteria (which everyone should have), and taking into account one’s qualifications, not every school on the list is going to match up IDEALLY with EVERY criteria on their list. The hope is that each school will match SOME of the criteria on the list. Some may match better than others. She doesn’t have to pick a school to attend yet, but simply to pick options to apply to and then see where she gets in. Once acceptances are in hand, she can determine which of her options most CLOSELY fits her list of criteria. Very few schools are ideal in every sort of way with regard to one’s college criteria. Sometimes you have to give in one area to get in another. One school may be better in your major but not as great of a location as another, and so on. Goucher fits many criteria that you have mentioned so far that your D has. She may wish to visit before knocking it off the list. I know really good dancers who chose this college for a BA. A B student has a much better chance at Goucher than at Vandy, too. I had recommended Rollins as well. Rollins is a tad harder to get into than Goucher. Skidmore is also a great option though is a little harder than the two I just mentioned but may be appropriate (I don’t know enough of your D’s qualifications to say and this is very very rough estimate)…I realize it is not a warm climate, however. Have you looked at Sarah Lawrence?</p>