I can’t comment much on the northeastern urban universities, except to say that I loved the pulse and energy of GW’s Foggy Bottom campus eons ago, but it’s very much a campus that people are drawn toward or repelled from.
@happy1 gave a great list of other northeastern urban universities that could be considered.
But since the one major preference we’ve heard is that your daughter would want warmer weather, has she thought about locations outside of the northeast?
- U. of Southern California in Los Angeles
- Tulane (LA) in New Orleans
- Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond
- College of Charleston (SC)
- U. of South Carolina (which also has a very well-reputed honors program, located in the state capital of Columbia)
All of these offer her majors of interest. And even if it’s not financially necessary, she would be likely to win substantial merit at some of these.