<p>have your daughter visit wellesley and barnard!</p>
<p>PS— yale is great, everybody is all smiles! (i visited there and live in the area)</p>
<p>No reason to push her and no reason to get a complex to attend an Ivy. Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time. Just realize it is a super reach for everyone. Miracle for EVERYONE. So build the list from the bottom, get a good list of matches. Then add top heavies as her reach/super reach schools. There’s no reason she isn’t qualified that I can see, but since they have to let 9 qualifies go for every 1 they take, it comes down to your EC’s and your essays and how you fit. See where other kids from her school have gone.</p>
<p>Consider EA (not ED) it reduced stress. However do put in a few more application, be sure to keep options open. Kids change and learn more about the schools in that last 6 months bewteen EA application and regular decision letters.</p>
<p>Of course all these schools have strong points that she pointed out. She needs to dig deeper, stop making faces, get serious. Carleton enjoys a great reputation and I know of kids that chose it over Harvard. It is also very hard to gain admission.</p>
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<p>i second this!</p>
<p>Check this out:</p>
<p>[QuestBridge</a> National College Match Program](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/program.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/program.html)</p>
<p>*Our EFC is 0, and we are residents of North Carolina. UNC-A is already on the list!</p>
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<p>??? Ashville? why not UNC-CH?</p>
<p>Definitely consider Grinnell and Carnegie Mellon! Their students are a lot like Chicago’s in how much they care about learning. From the description, I would assume that your daughter would love the diversity of CMU…I attended a “Sleeping Bag Weekend” overnight visit and hung out with two students from China, one from India, and one from New Zealand. 
A great financial safety would be Case Western. Its applicant pool is very self-selecting, so don’t be put off by the high acceptance rate. My stats were a little lower than your daughter’s and I got a great merit-based aid package!
University of Rochester also comes to mind. Its open curriculum is awesome and professors really care about the students and their interests.
Rice University, in Houston, is farther away than you’re hoping for, but I feel like I have to mention it! It has such a diverse, intellectual student body. The housing system is great, too!</p>
<p>Does she have any idea of what she’d like to study?</p>
<p>Since your EFC is 0, she should apply ED to Brown :). She has a great shot IMHO. Otherwise, echo the same as the other posters: Wesleyan, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Amherst, Kenyon, Swarthmore, Oberlin. But honestly, with stats like hers, the working, the maturity to commute all this time on her own, the amount of EC’s and the quality, she has a very good chance to get into Brown and it sounds like an idea fit for her.</p>
<p>I think the Ivies that meet full financial aid are worth applying to.</p>
<p>Carleton is the first school that comes to my mind - a small LAC with quirky, intellectual and friendly student body and excellent academics.</p>
<p>Also, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Oberlin, University of Chicago, and, as most here have recommended - Brown.</p>
<p>Not sure if all will meet your financial need. Certainly Brown would.</p>