There’s no such thing as a dream school. All have bad roomies or dorms or profs or food or something. Nowhere is perfect.
That’s the first mentality kids have to change.
And there’s a reasonable sub for everything. You note Michigan. Way out of budget. Indiana is Michigan and has a top ranked music program, as an example.
There will be subs at the LAC level as well. And it seems the student is not looking for a 2nd major - and for law school, the where won’t matter and that’s an expense too.
Once you start looking at schools more expensive, this statement is out the window. You open yourself to the possibility of $90K plus. So if you really mean this, you simply don’t go there. I don’t know whether it’s Lawrence, St. Olaf, or some others from another thread - Oberlin, Whitman (gives a merit aid pre-read) Clark, Trinity U, Southwestern, Puget Sound, Gettysburg (has a conservatory too),
But there are others that will hit your budget. But when you have a budget, once you open yourself to being outside of it, then that’s likely going to happen.
The goal is law school - and unless you can carry both undergrad and law school ($700Kish), you have to factor that in at time of looking, not at decision time when the student may very well desire that $90K+.