Make sure to set out the financial implications of different states. E.g., the California unis might be good - but you’re also dealing with out of state tuition.
And also look at the pipeline - I was interested in biology, but all of the people in the program were hyper competitive pre-medical students. And who wants to deal with that?
Try to spin this in a different direction. Someone once gave me a collection of nyt obituaries - all of the positive things that other people said about the lives of extraordinary people. That’s reading message of hope and love and sorrow - and probably a much better influence on you than notes that would probably be rooted in despair.