Find out about how many of the people that enter the school finish(there are a number of schools who have lowered their entrance standards,and increased the size of first year classes, knowing that most of the new recruits won't last more than a year or so--) and if your daughter's profile is more like the graduates or the dropouts--I would figure that a less focussed, less motivated student would do better in a larger, less political school that offers more options--forget which schools you love, and let her know she has to please herself, not you--