“You might also have benefitted from doing your own due diligence to notice the 3.67 GPA and sub-1400 SAT prior to making your own recommendations of Amherst, Bowdoin, Swarthmore and Haverford in post #66.”
My post was for less isolated schools and, yes, reaches mainly. If she is considering Carleton, these are all in the same wheelhouse. Yes, all would be a stretch. You conveniently left out the mention of women’s colleges which do, absent Barnard, have higher acceptance rates than the others and are in the same range of the schools mentioned by the OP.
“Here’s a thought:How about educated and happy.”
Exactly. There are enough colleges out there to pick and choose a list that fits based on multiple attributes. No need to compromise on something that struck the OP as being too isolated.