Thank you, everyone, for all the help and attention!
I’ll try to get more responses from my parents next time. It’s a work in progress, that’s for sure. The whole applications journey is.
mimcinco: I would not consider a women’s college. I don’t really enjoy being singled out for my sex, either positively or negatively, and it’s definitely a choice that makes a statement to me… not a bad one, but not one that I’m interested in. Other preferences… urban/abundant public transportation (in the surrounding area itself) is good, as I can’t drive and dread learning. I’d prefer a minimum school size (at least eight hundred or so freshmen?) and don’t really care if it gets bigger. Around a thousand five hundred sounds good, and I don’t mind if there are significantly more than that. Probably a pretty liberal environment, but having lived in the Bible Belt for years, I mostly just need one that’s not extremely conservative. Similarly, I’m not religious, and not interested in religiously affiliated schools. … Other than that, not really sure what to mention?