I agree. While this list might be okay for business (I don’t know much about business), it’s not a great one for ChemE.
The first problem, as others have mentioned, is that you’re not excited about your one safety. As a full-pay student, there are SO many possible safeties for you that offer both ChemE and business. If you let us know what you’d like in a college (set aside ranking for a moment), we can give you great suggestions. For biggish and urban, how about Pitt? For smaller, how about U Dayton?
There are lots of great target schools as well, such as UMN and Delaware that were mentioned above, which have notable strength in ChemE.
If you want something smaller, how about Case Western or Lafayette?
Some of the reaches aren’t great for ChemE, also as noted above. In particular, definitely do not ED to Chicago! They don’t offer engineering (except for one brand new program in biomolecular engineering which is pretty niche).
Northwestern is an ideal reach for you, and I’m glad to see it on your list.
I’m confused… do you want to major in ChemE or are you applying to ChemE programs as a strategy to switch into something else?