States or schools you will not consider due to the political environment of the state and schools that you will consider despite their location being politically problematic for you.
Also - as an aside - I think it would be so useful for colleges to know why parents/students aren’t applying to a particular school. Maybe by adding a question when people unsubscribe to emails for a school?
Useful tools to find issues that matter to your family:
States with high firearm fatalities: Stats of the States - Firearm Mortality
States with restrictive abortion laws (this has not been updated since yesterday’s Ohio vote protecting abortion access) Where is Abortion Illegal? | Abortion Limits by State
States with and without red flag laws (to restrict gun ownership for individuals of high risk - mental health or domestic violence, etc.) Extreme Risk Law | Everytown Research & Policy
States off our list and the specific schools that we removed from the shortlist for D25 - mostly due to reproductive rights hostility:
Texas (UT Austin)
Missouri (WashU)
Tennessee (Vanderbilt)
Indiana (Purdue)
North Carolina (Davidson - so sad about this one!!!)