Thanks @scout59 for the info on Brevard. That sounds about like what I was thinking. I think we’ll probably get over there at some point, maybe this summer, just 'cause I wanna find a white squirrel(!), but it is probably not the right fit for my D.
@yauponredux good point about the financial health of small LACs. Definitely something to research. MBU does seem to be doing well now from what I can tell, but I should probably take a deeper dive before we go too far down that road.
@thumper1, as I mentioned in my OP, we live in Chapel Hill and my D-22 loves to go spend her money downtown on Franklin Street in the coffee and bubble tea shops and take her school work and study there, so she has a very good idea of how much stuff costs and what she is looking for. They know her by name in her favorite bubble tea place. The coffee shops here are full of UNC students doing the same.
@Holly2023 I had not heard about Bridgewater College. I will check it out and see if it might be a good fit.
@LakeWashington Thanks for the recommendation. Don’t think she’s gonna want to go to Mississippi, but I will let her know she might want to check out the writing program. My bro-in-law graduated from Mississippi State, btw.