What about Washington University in St. Louis? The undergraduate population is within her range. I don’t know any students there myself but my daughter has several friends currently there who love it as well as several who will be there next year, and I think that it matches some of your daughter’s other criteria. While the curriculum is not fully open, it looks like there is a lot of discretion in choosing classes to fill their breadth requirements. I am imagine that it will still be a reach, but perhaps less so for applicants from NE than the midwest. I hear the campus is beautiful.
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