Like Grinnell, but easier to get into/get merit

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Very small colleges offering good merit aid?

D1 is off to her second year at University of Alabama (loves it despite the pandemic throwing a wrench in freshman year; joined Greek life and loves that, too). D2 wants a very small college, preferably offering Greek life, with merit aid ideally bringing down the direct COA (tuition, fees, room, and board) to $15k-20k per year. D2 is a bit of an amalgam–she’s openly gay but very quite about it and so doesn’t fit in the “louder” LGBTQ+ culture in a lot of places and somewhat religious (liberal Protestant Christian). Major undecided. Wants a small college with “non-freezing” weather. Schools that are maybe in play: -Lyon College in Arkansas -Millsaps College in Mississippi -Newberry College in South Carolina -Westminster College in Missouri -Scripps in California -Bryn Mawr (might be too cold?) Other schools we should look at? Stats: 4.0 UW GPA, 12 AP classes, top 5% of class, 32 ACT, lots of community service and ECs around her foreign language (non-native speaker competitions,…