I have a somewhat different perspective to offer.
You said that you don't know much about different colleges. Given this, my opinion is that it's too soon to ask you and your DD to make choices about specific colleges. It's kind of like asking someone who doesn't know how to swim to choose the stroke he wants to use for racing in 5 years. He can't make an informed decision when he doesn't even know the difference between butterfly and crawl. He needs to learn about different swim strokes first --- and so do you and your DD.
So my advice would be to start with the basics. Sit down with your daughter and learn about the differences between Harvard and a community college and so on.
Here's some very basic information to get you started. After five minutes, you'll know the difference between different types of colleges.
Here's some more basic information. This information is from the US Department of Education. It's old-ish, but it has more detail and nearly all of this stuff hasn't changed anyway (the only stuff that's really different now concerns costs). This set of pages has excellent information about different types of institution, different programs, recommendations for what to study in high school, etc. The really good thing about this site is that it lays it all out in a very easy way to follow. You do NOT want to get stuck somewhere clicking relentlessly and feeling like you're getting nowhere.
Finally, this site is for first-generation college students. Read it last, not first.