I'll be happy to get my daughter into Pepperdine, a halfway decent conservative university.
My eldest daughter will be entering Santa Clara U this fall, the university from which her eldest stepsister graduated. The more I hear about this school, the happier I am (at least so far). Two of her friends will be attending UC Berkeley and one will be attending Stanford, so she will have friends nearby. The article seems to be a fairly good summary of the madness that is college admissions and alumni giving.