My daughter was pretty darn non-committal about her college preferences also all the way until 2 weeks before the May deadline for acceptance. She didn’t help at all in putting together a list of colleges to visit or apply to- I did that, and she didn’t have any schools that WOWed her during her visits. I think some kids just don’t really know how to assess colleges and don’t know what they should be looking for. I think it’s sort of like a person selecting where they want to work by just touring the building - you can’t possibly know what kind of co-workers you will have to work with every day or how challenging or enjoyable the job will be until you’re there for a while. It didn’t help that she didn’t/still doesn’t know what she wants to study - that would have narrowed things down a bit. She is a high average student with no spectacular achievements so she had no lofty aspirations of attending a very selective college. She leaves for her freshman year in less than a month and still seems to me to be kind of lost and apprehensive. She definitely wants to go to college (and definitely doesn’t want to commute), but she just has no idea what to expect. Her only input was no schools in the south and no conservative or religious schools - she attended a Catholic high school and had had enough of that environment. She also didn’t want to go to a very large school, but I think she would have enjoyed a lot of things that a large school would have offered - but that was off the table for her. I don’t know why she didn’t want to go to a large school - she could never verbalize that to me. So she’s off to a small private LAC - she chose it mainly because it was the highest ranked school that she was accepted to and with FA, it was as affordable as our state public schools. Her choice didn’t have anything to do with how beautiful the campus was (it is), what majors are offered, the location, anything about the student body, the dorms, available student activities, etc. I was just as frustrated as the OP about her indecision, but like I said, I just don’t think she knew how to make one. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she will be happy there. I think I’ve given the impression that she is a shy withdrawn mouse of a girl, but she is the complete opposite - very outgoing and vivacious - so I never expected this process to be so hard for her.