If you attend a highly ranked university, very quickly you no longer think of yourself as being at an “elite” school, and you start finding yourself at an actual school, with tons of homework, tough classes, and with some very specific characteristics of the school (big city, rural, small town, large school, small school, some strong majors and some weak majors and some majors not offered, etc…).
You should try to understand what you actually want in a university.
With a 3.5 unweighted GPA you need to focus on safeties unless as others have pointed out you are one of the top athletes in the country in a sport that schools care about.