https://www.honors.umass.edu/contacts
The Honors College is likely to have an oversupply of would-be premeds. What about if she indicated she wants to major in a science and a less-common minor?
Possibilities include
Anthropology
Sustainable Community Development
Modern European Studies
Arabic
Catalan Studies (if she’s always dreamed of studying in Barcelona :p)
Classical Civilizations
Food Science
French Studies (wants to study abroad in the country with the #1 health care system and intern there)
Scandinavian Studies (she’s always been fascinated by the health system in Scandinavia, hopes to study in Sweden?)
Italian Studies
Japanese
Philosophy
Portuguese
(Is her first name like Taylor or Cameron, you don’t know whether the person’s a girl or a boy? Because girl in science typically helps).
Write a cover letter carefully highlighting how her strengths match the program and how she’d take advantage of it but would also bring something to it; join a scanned graded paper showing her thinking abilities (preferably in History or English, or, if she’s in IB, TOK). Ask if they could assess her application.
Be careful: UMass is a low-tuition/high fees system. Check that the Abigail Adams scholarship covers BOTH tuition AND fees.
When your second daughter goes to college, you MAY NOT be eligible for financial aid. Run the FA forecaster to see if you qualify for Pell with 2 in college. If not, nothing may change. None of the three universities above “meet need”. They wouldn’t care that you have a second child in college and your financial need changed, since… they don’t meet need - run the NPCs to see if the results change if you enter 2 in college, but typically it won’t change.
UMass is a good enough school and its classes for the premed core are as good as any flagship’s… but without the extra support of honors, it’ll be tough to be a premed.
What AP’s has she taken so far?