@Cameron121: FYI, your description of Vanderbilt as “very Southern” has become outdated. It’s now a national university with students from all over. Only about a third of the student body is from the south. My daughter, a born and raised New Yorker, feels very much at home there. Her friends are from California, Chicago, New Jersey, DC. I think she has only one close friend from a southern state, yet she and her friends would describe themselves as typical, mainstream “Vandy girls.” The place has just transformed dramatically in terms of the student body over the past decade–and particularly in the last five years. I wanted to mention that for anyone reading this thread who’s considering Vanderbilt. That said, for the OP’s daughter I’d vote for Yale in a heartbeat!