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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if there's a school or professor you're daughter is really interested in, consider that she can work there during the summer.  Pre-Trump there were NSF REUs and other summer research programs where you could do research for the summer with the professor of your choice.  I don't know what these will look like for the next few years, but there will probably be some options.  I spent a summer at Columbia doing research and had a great experience, but left happy that I wasn't going to school there.

I ended up at my choice of PhD programs, but spent all three undergrad summers working in different places including with one professor who went on to win a Nobel Prize.  I'm glad I didn't just stick to my "home" university in the summer, but got a broader understanding of what was going on in my field and what to look for in a graduate program.

I do know at least one professor who liked the work a summer research student was doing, called admissions and got them an offer to stay.  It's absolutely super rare, but not impossible if she really has her heart set on transferring.[/quote]

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