I just want to say hang in there with the new school. My junior ds did the same this year - left private school of 400 and now at public school with 1400 students. My heart broke because I think for the first three days nobody spoke to him and he didn’t even have a locker assignment. Sat at lunch alone too. Slowly it is getting better and he is meeting a few kids in a couple of classes. I now appreciate teachers who do group work because it allows and forces interaction. Without it, when it is just lecture, the kids are not able to talk to one another. He says the same thing…the kids are set in their groups and don’t extend themselves. I just wanted to share this so you know you are not the only junior in this situation. My son has a great personality, is mature and independent so I know he will be ok and you will too. As far as colleges people here have given you some great lists. Just go on visits and see what you think. I think a good place to start is geographic preference (urban, isolated, woven within town or “stand alone”) and size (huge university or smaller). But it will probably take visits to help figure that out. Economics is pretty innocuous and its just undergrad so you have a lot of options with that major. I don’t mean to diminish undergrad but really it is just the beginning of higher education.