Agreed - throw out the two PA schools - that you raise the issue is enough to remove them?
How is the price of UDel vs. UMD.
Do they like UDel? It’s smaller and a bit further out than UMD.
Going to UMD has risk - so to me, if he likes Delaware and the cost is comfortable, I’d lean there.
Of course, I don’t know the student or what they’d be comfortable with.