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[quote=Anonymous]We are starting the process of building a tentative college application list.  We have visited campus types, we have a decent idea of where her GPA and test scores will land and her course of study is increasing in difficulty. She has been reflecting on her best fit characteristics for schools.

But the actual research process looks like a stack of phonebooks dropped on her desk.  She is trying her best, but I've noticed the colleges she reads about first each night are more likely to land on her "possible" list.  Is there any more tech-enabled way to do this? I am dreaming of a searchable database with things like "undergrad teaching focused", "small class sizes for entry level classes" as searchable fields.

Even an ebook version of the college guides that support screen readers would be helpful.  I feel like I am missing some simple solution. The college counselors said the reading is part of the effort and to ask the special education team.  The special education team hasn't had a student like her so they suggested community college she only gets extra time accommodations at school).

Her stats/ interests are as follows:
-3.8 GPA will have 1 AP senior year
~1200 SAT
-2 years foreign language
-will complete precalculus in HS but also considering statistics class if available (due to dyscalculia)
-Undecided major, interests include media/ communications, history, theater, forensics, marine biology, intends to go to grad school
-wants undergrad teaching focused school
-smallish class sizes for entry level classes (20-30)
-reasonably sized university (at least 5k students)
-opportunity to participate in/ do research
-writing center available on campus
-would prefer city, but access to city ok
-seasonal variation
-opportunity to do theater as non-theater major
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