He doesn’t need to try to avoid schools where there might be protests. If everything else had been working well it wouldn’t have been a concern, it was just unfortunate timing for him amidst the struggles he was already having.
And as someone upthread mentioned, fit is the most important thing to me at this point. For all we know he’ll end up changing majors so I’m not putting too much emphasis on history.
Thank you again for all the responses.