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[quote=Anonymous][quote=dcmom12345]To add- we live in Maryland so I brought up in UMD as an option with DD seemed okay with but DH put on list of "will not pay for". He gave a list of universities he would consider acceptable which was limited to Chicago, Duke, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, AWS, JHU, Northwestern, RICE, Vandy, Michigan, and Berkeley. [/quote]

Your husband has given a list of 14 schools for which he would be willing to pay. Based on the transfer acceptance rates from a few years ago, the most realistic options among the list of 14 schools are:

Michigan, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, and U Chicago. Are any of these 5 National Universities of interest to your daughter ?

Your daughter's list of target schools appears to be a cry for help as Colgate, Wash & Lee, Syracuse, Penn State, FSU, U Miami, and Michigan State are quite different from her current school of Columbia University. Clearly, your daughter wants a much different and far less competitive environment.

U Chicago & Northwestern tend to be more intense academically than Rice, Vanderbilt, and Michigan. U Chicago is outstanding for math, but it is in an urban environment. Northwestern is on the more fast-paced quarter system in which students are expected, but not required, to take 4 courses per quarter term.

OP: Can your daughter and husband agree on any transfer target schools ?

As I wrote in another post in this thread, Vanderbilt & Northwestern are transfer friendly schools and I suspect that Rice is as well. Michigan is so large that it might overwhelm a transfer student even though Michigan would be a far less intense environment than that at Columbia.

Assuming that your daughter may not be open to Houston, Texas (Rice University), maybe she can focus on Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Colgate as target schools which offer a realistic chance of admission and the status that your husband is seeking for your daughter and his dollars.[/quote]

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