A few years back, a very articulate student shared his college application process. In the end, he went to Stanford and he shared why he chose it over Harvard. I don’t know if any of it will resonate with your daughter but it is a good read.
It is also a good read for those who are curious what it takes to get into top schools. These were his choices.
Accepted: USC (Scholarship for trustee’s nominee), Yale (likely call), Purdue, UIUC, UC Berkeley (Regent’s and Chancellor’s Scholar), Harvard (likely letter), Stanford (likely letter), UC Davis (Regent’s), UCI, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD, Brown, UPenn, Princeton, CMU, MIT (off waitlist)
Waitlisted: UMich, Northeastern
Rejected: Cornell, UDub, GaTech, UT Austin, UCLA, Northwestern