Thank you all for painting a picture of the different colleges; the personal experiences really help. I don’t think she realizes how different cold and urban sprawl vs tropical and small town will be. That said, she is mostly looking at the academic experience. It’s me who is worried about all the others ways a college could be a good fit.
@ucbalumnus you did a great job synthesizing it. She should apply to the one where the calculator is the closest to our EFC and her stats place her the highest above the average.