When a kid says, “I want to do X,” it’s very difficult to look at schools that don’t have X. My oldest wanted a career-specific, rather uncommon major. She also had requirements about size of school and distance from home. Really limited the search. She dropped major X first semester as the first course in the major required job shadowing. She realized that all the “cool” parts of the job were really just a tiny piece of what the career entailed. Do I wish she’d been at another school with more options when that happened? Yes. Without a doubt. Would she have considered schools without major X when she was a junior and senior in high school? Definitely not.