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Here are 116 outstanding colleges you may want to consider applying to. Besides the usual suspects, the list includes colleges mentioned in a good variety of college guides so that you can read up about them before deciding whether to apply, or whether to attend if admitted.

Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA) *
Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) *
American University (Washington, DC) **
Amherst College (Amherst, MA) ***
Barnard College (New York, NY) ***
Bates College (Lewiston, ME) ***
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) ***
Boston University (Boston, MA) **
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) ***
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) ***
Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) **
Brown University (Providence, RI) ***
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) **
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA) ***
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) ***
Carleton College (Northfield, MN) ***
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) ***
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) ***
Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA) ***
Colby College (Waterville, ME) ***
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY) ***
College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) ***
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) ***
Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO) *
Columbia University: Columbia College (New York, NY) ***
Connecticut College (New London, CT) ***
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) ***
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) ***
Davidson College (Davidson, NC) ***
DePauw University (Greencastle, IN) *
Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) **
Duke University (Durham, NC) ***
Emory University (Atlanta, GA) ***
Fordham University (Bronx, NY) *
Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) *
Furman University (Greenville, SC) **
George Washington University (Washington, DC) ***
Georgetown University (Washington, DC) ***
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) **
Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA) *
Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA) **
Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) *
Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) ***
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) ***
Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA) ***
Haverford College (Haverford, PA) ***
Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL) **
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) ***
Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) ***
Lafayette College (Easton, PA) ***
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) **
Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) ***
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) ***
Miami University (Oxford, OH) *
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) ***
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) **
New York University (New York, NY) ***
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) ***
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) ***
Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA) ***
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus (Columbus, OH) *
Penn State University Park (State College, PA) *
Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA) *
Pomona College (Claremont, CA) ***
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) ***
Reed College (Portland, OR) ***
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) **
Rhodes College (Memphis, TN) *
Rice University (Houston, TX) ***
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ) *
Scripps College (Claremont, CA) ***
Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) *
Smith College (Northampton, MA) ***
St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) *
Stanford University (Stanford, CA) ***
State University of New York at Binghamton (NY) *
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA) ***
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY) *
Texas A and M University (College Station, TX) *
Trinity College (Hartford, CT) **
Tufts University (Medford, MA) ***
Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) ***
Union College (Schenectady, NY) *
University of California: Berkeley (CA) **
University of California: Los Angeles (CA) ***
University of California: San Diego (La Jolla, CA) *
University of Chicago (IL) ***
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) *
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL) **
University of Maryland--College Park (College Park, MD) *
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) **
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) *
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC) ***
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN) ***
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) ***
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) *
University of Richmond (Richmond, VA) ***
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) ***
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) ***
University of Texas at Austin (TX) *
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) ***
University of Wisconsin--Madison (WI) *
University of the South (Sewanee, TN) *
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) ***
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) ***
Villanova University (Villanova, PA) **
Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN) *
Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) ***
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) ***
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) ***
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) ***
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) ***
Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) *
Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA) **
Williams College (Williamstown, MA) ***
Yale University (New Haven, CT) ***

Check the specific application deadline for each college of interest. Consider applying far away from your home region for the learning value of being in a new place and possibly having an enhanced chance of admission.

Good luck.