Providence or Fairfield should be easy to visit for mid-size.
If he liked Penn State, VTech shouldn’t be seen as just tech, it has a great business school worth checking out and easier to get into than Smeal while providing the same environment of big school/big sports/college town/happy undergrads.
His school should be a “known quantity” at Rutgers this giving him a better shot - you may want to ask where his school sends lots of graduates because it means these universities will understand the rigor and factor that in.
He should think of switching languages for college graduation unless he loves Latin, since in business a spoken language can be useful, especially in fields related to one’s interests, even if the student ultimately does nothing with it (ie., if car industry and motors = German, if aeronautic industry or gas = French, if textiles an Asian language such as Bangladeshi or Vietnamese, if energy Chinese..)