She'll be going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY.
I think she wants to do a biochemistry/biomed major but is currently admitted into the computer science program. Probably doesn't make a lot of difference in first year classwork.
Not only is it closer but our son has a close friend in Troy NY, so she would have someone in town she knows.
RPI has a pretty good reputation in the sciences, too. This was probably her second choice after MIT, which didn't accept her. (There were already several students from her HS who were accepted by MIT, so she might have run into a geographical balance issue and just missed the cut.)
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