<p>Your daughter should contact the magazine journalists she most admires. Usually these folks can be contacted through the magazine their article appeared in. She should ask them where they went to school and what they majored in. I'll bet that NONE of them majored in magazine journalism. The best non fiction writers are well educated generalists who are passionate about people, issues, lives and stories. I suggest your daughter get a liberal education in the best college she can get into, read everything, major in english, politics or history, find a mentor, and write for the school newspaper. College is too early to specialize or spend a semester in a course on how to find an agent.</p>