Match me: parent looking for schools with robust environmental science/conservation biology/organismal biology programs [MA resident, <$50-60k]

I think in a situation like this - after you build your list - you might even put into high priority/low priority - or demonstrated interest matters vs. not.

If you’re in W Mass, a school like - just throwing out, Skidmore - might be easy on the weekend.

An ESF won’t require interest - so you can apply and visit later.

It’s tough with the charter school and a GPA we don’t understand - so does it make sense to go to Bowdoin as a priority (where you can do Bates, Colby, U Maine, College of the Atlantic, etc.) or is a UNH or URI that are sure things - no idea on the Bates, Colby, Maine.

It’s always good if you could batch schools at least - for efficiency sake.

Typically your publics aren’t demonstrated interest schools so they could go later.

Hopefully the student can suss out a few different environments because while we hear size doesn’t matter, it likely does - and one can quickly see - oh, this is too big for me or oh, this is too small for me, etc.

Good luck to OP.