@Judi When I spoke to her that is what she mentioned, going to Baptist colleges, I just wanted to offer this as an alternative, to have a larger selection of choices. The parents don’t have college degrees, and I think they also are limited in their knowledge of what college is really like, small university vs, large, etc. Not that they are not smart, they are wonderful, smart, supportive parents, but sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know. I think it is hard for them to understand their daughter’s reluctance to investigate colleges, and get her act together so to speak in figuring out where she wants to apply. I was that girl as a teenager, afraid of the unknown, and making assumptions about how college would be. Afraid of being in an environment that would have peer pressure, or be overwhelming. She seems to want to stay close to home or possibly go to a school where her aunt or another relative lives.
I also wonder if going to a religious schools is limiting? If employers might look negatively at it on a resume? Of course they shouldn’t but I wonder? I might make that a question.