The most common way to start a college search is to plug what you want into a search engine like Scoir, BigFuture, Niche etc and come up with a list of schools. Sometimes, the list is 100 colleges long and other times, you get zero!
During Junior English Class Visits, Individual meetings and on Junior Parent Night, I outline the search process with what to know and what to think about.
Scoir has a good search engine and all WHS students have an account with Scoir. Take all "will you get in" report cards with a grain of salt.
Campus Pride Index (College Search and resources for the LGBTQ and Ally community)