Palm715- If Olin is her dream school, and you still don’t hit the ceiling of your family’s ability to pay with their NPC, sounds like she has a good chance there. Lots and lots and lots of bad weather in winter, FYI, but the girl I know there loves it.
As you mentioned likes pretty surroundings:
My mate says RPI is in a truly old-industrial setting, and (off-campus) the area does not have much to offer in terms of inspirational. WPI, also, is located in a general area that, not counting the school’s grounds and a few blocks around it, can be a little hard on the eye for someone not used to …a sea of cement. Though, mate says, it is located in probably the best looking stretch of its portion of the city.
Others have commented elsewhere that as a student’s job is to study, and there is little time the serious student has to actually spend off-campus, maybe these things will carry no sway.