I’ve looked into UNM quite a bit since we toured it this spring for D24. Your stats would get you an auto-merit scholarship at Univ of New Mexico. You’d automatically be applicable for either the WUE Plus or Amigo scholarships, both basically get you the NM resident in-state tuition rate, which brings tuition, room & board from ~$34,000/yr to $21,476.
Note that this figure does not include other expenses, like transportation, books, spending money.
UNM Regents Scholarship requires separate application, must apply by 12/1. You should consider applying for that.
Travel there would involve flying into the Albuquerque airport. This will mean you’ll be changing planes from Seattle to ABQ. For example, if you’re flying on Southwest, that might mean changing planes in Las Vegas or Phoenix.
UNM has a large out of state student presence on campus because of its great OOS merit awards.
Computer Science major info → Bachelor's Degree :: Department of Computer Science | The University of New Mexico
Linguistics dept info (they have this as a major) → Undergraduate Program :: Linguistics | The University of New Mexico. By the way, you can take Navajo language classes here. And ASL.
No library science at UNM though.
No Creative Writing major or minor options, but the English dept does have a 3-yr MFA program in Creative Writing. So it would be worth looking up creative writing undergraduate course options because maybe you’d find something there that floats your boat.
I did a whole big post in the Colleges your child crossed off the list after visiting, schools that moved up on the list. Why? - #6741 by sbinaz earlier this year reporting on our UNM visit, in case you’re interested in reading that. Included some photos as well in the post right after # 6741.