especially if she doesn’t want to attend OSU, applying to the Honors college would matter. You don’t know how many seniors didn’t apply to their flagships honors college “because they’d never want to attend /flagship/”, end up going there and have the extra bitter pill on top that they’re not even with their peers in Honors.
If she doesn’t apply to Engineering, U Oregon’s Honors college is excellent.
Fortunately with WUE she has lots of OOS choices at a decent price for your budget; in addition, her stats would ensure merit at many colleges supportive for premeds (if she decides that’s more important than Engineering) such as Whitman, UPuget Sound… So, if she wants to leave Oregon, she likely can and for less than 80k at a UC.
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Their early financial aid guarantee - a bit like an athletic preread that tells you how much you’d be expected to pay- would be very valuable in determining whether it’d be a good idea to apply:
If she wants warmer she can look into Davidson and Emory or Emory-Oxford.
At Emory, merit scholarship apps are due Nov 15.
At Davidson, all scholarship materials are due the same day as the application is due
https://www.davidson.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/financial-aid/types-financial-aid/scholarships/application-scholarships