Since she’s into theater, another public LAC to look at would be Southern Oregon U. It’s in Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It has just over 5K undergraduates, a gorgeous campus, and a progressive/artsy vibe with a very active theater community. I know several kids who love it there and who came home after their first year very excited about their classes, internships, and leadership opportunities. The admit rate is 78%; the GPA cutoff for automatic-admit is 3.0UW, but supplemental materials are accepted for holistic eval of applicants with under-3.0 GPA’s, and given your d’s scores and other strengths, and the likely grade-deflated context of her school, I would expect her to get in if she submitted recommendations, writing samples, etc. as instructed. The nice thing is that admissions are rolling, so if she applies early she could hear back early and have an acceptance up her sleeve.
https://sou.edu/academics/political-science/programs/political-science-ba-bs/
https://sou.edu/academics/theatre/
Portland State is similar in terms of admissions criteria, but they have a formal “matrix” requiring a 29ACT/1350SAT to get in with a 2.7 unweighted GPA, so this would be a safety. I’ve seen students apply early and be accepted before the end of September. It’s a bigger school and doesn’t necessarily fit the pattern of what your d is looking for, but the students do get involved in a lot of public-benefit work in the city of Portland - there’s a lot of cool stuff going on. My d’s friends there love it. It’s a “commuter school” with a lot of non-traditional students, but the dorm community is fun and close-knit. The rolling-admissions system can make great peace-of-mind safeties out of both schools, simply because you can find out so early and know you have a fallback.
https://www.pdx.edu/hatfieldschool/undergraduate-program-political-science
https://www.pdx.edu/usp/babs-community-development
https://www.pdx.edu/music/theater
Willamette is especially good for Poli Sci because of its close ties to state government in Salem.
Women’s college wise, consider Agnes Scott. It seems like a fit in terms of the leadership-oriented philosophy. There’s cross-registration with Emory (and a jointly developed Public Health major should that be of interest - lots of public policy work to be done in that field.
https://www.agnesscott.edu/politicalscience/majors-minors.html
https://www.agnesscott.edu/publichealth/majors-and-minors/index.html
https://www.agnesscott.edu/theatre/majors-minors.html