It is likely the case that a European kid will be in a very small minority in the College. That’s not necessarily a disadvantage. Her classmates will either be Europhiles or at the very least be very interested and intrigued by a kid no older than themselves with the gumption and curiosity to cross the pond and end up in the belly of the American Beast - the bad old city of Chicago in the heart of the heart of the Midwest in the bad old U.S. of A. Perhaps it is my own Europhilism showing, but I expect that her secondary education will have been more rigorous than that of most of her American classmates, so the academic part of her new life, though challenging, may not be as overwhelming to her as to some of them. The enemy for her will likely not be stress of study, nor any lack of finding friends nor any real danger in her surroundings - but simply, as someone has said, homesickness. However, that’s a somewhat universal condition at Chicago during first year. It soon abates and is in itself a bracing part of growing up. Many American kids in the College come from places as culturally dissimilar to the University and the city as are some parts of Europe. The University of Chicago is a pretty unique world for almost everyone who first encounters it.