It is a large (over 20,000) regional university, we live in a college town. If she decided to go to any other in state school for undergrad most classes would transfer. It would not cover all tuition, but since she would live at home it really would not cost much more than we are paying now. What she proposes is doing this transferring to an in state stem school to finish undergrad and then going on to a Ph.D. Program (she tends to think ahead). Your SAT/ACT scores have to qualify you for regular admissions to the school of choice.