They offer good scholarships to top out of state students. They’re worth checking out. Plus it’s 5 minutes from Six Flags Fiesta Texas and the La Cantara shopping center.
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The scholarships include an in-state tuition waiver.
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Many moons ago when I was a little kid, we lived in San Antonio for about 5 years. A few years ago, we did a cross country road trip from AZ to WDW and we stopped to take pictures in front of the house I lived in when I was little. It was pretty cool. I’ve been to Six Flags in San Antonio before! 
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ASU has courses for high school learners. You can take a look at these courses if they interest her.
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Chiming in here. My younger brother has risen to the heights of cybersecurity, working in the field for a couple decades. Can’t say much about exactly what he does, it’s top secret and even immediate family members like me only have a general sense of what his duties might entail, some of which are learned during the rare events when Fort Meade is open to family members.
He, and pretty much every single one of his cybersecurity friends and coworkers we’ve met over the years have one thing in common. They have widely varied interests, personalities, backgrounds, families.
But every single one of them learned coding on their own, usually in middle school or earlier, a few in high school. Yes, they took computer science classes at school, but they were fascinated by the operation of computers. My brother was building his own computers out of discarded parts from family friends by the time he was 7 years old, for example, and was paid freelance by local businesses to setup their networks and websites by the age of 14.
If someone is interested in cybersecurity and actively dislikes math, they will be miserable every single day of their lives if they’re trying to work in that field.
On the other hand, my son was interested in counter-intelligence. I’d suggest your daughter look into that. Foreign language, history, and a good liberal arts background including some STEM would be helpful in that field.
Both cybersecurity and counterintelligence have only a partial resemblance to the Hollywood portrayal.
The other odd thing: Of the nearly 100 cybersecurity professionals I’ve met, not a single one of them was a woman. I lived in Silicon Valley or nearby my whole life, and have met many women who were professionals in Computer Science and working in tech. And some of them doubtless had some aspect of cybersecurity to their jobs. And I’m certain there are women in the Cyber Security field with security clearances, just haven’t had the opportunity to meet them yet.
But it may provide a clue to the fact that it requires kind of unique obsessive fascination with outsmarting bad guys and other cyber security specialists by obtaining obscure knowledge and finding unique ways to exploit them in creative new ways.
Oh, and all of the above got their Masters in Cyber Security, and had to pass incredibly stringent background checks. It’s a truly fascinating field and I wish your daughter the best!
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Chiming in again. Spoke with several in the cybersecurity field about this topic. They were unanimous that higher end math is absolutely fundamental to cybersecurity and the level of programming necessary for both hacking and defending against hacking, so perhaps that information can be useful for future planning.
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