<p>I’m from Dallas (although I live elsewhere now), so I know about the stereotypes of TCU and SMU. When I visited I was pleasantly surprised, though, and sort of fell in love. I’ve considered all of the schools you’ve mentioned except Trinity, which I’ll look into 
UT Austin is too huge and too liberal, St Edwards is also too liberal, U of Dallas is too tiny, and I’ve already looked into Baylor (and yes, one of my problems with it is that Waco is totally out in the middle of nowhere). Thank you for the suggestions!</p>