Your list includes:
LACs, in relatively out of the way places (Kenyon, Denison, Carleton, Bowdoin) and one in a mid-sized city (Macalester).
They will have a very very different lived experience from JHU, UCB, NYU and BU, which are all large universities in urban environments…
…which will be different again to UChic which is medium sized and urban and has a strong Core requirement…
…which would be different again to CMU, Cornell and UMi, which are large/largeish universities in medium sized cities/towns.
More than that, though, the personalities of these schools are so very different. Bowdoin and Cornell are (imo) strikingly different campus cultures. To me, your ECs & post read more UPenn than Cornell. From a campus culture pov I see your list breaking into a JHU/UChic/Cornell/CMU pile, a Kenyon/Mac/Carleton/Denison/maybe BU pile, and a UMi/Bowdoin pile. Again that’s just another way to slice the cake: you have to decide what variables are most important to you.
I think you would be well served to back all the way up, scratch ALL of them (yes, even your “dream” school- I’m not sold that you know as much about your dream school as you think), and start with a blank slate. Go back to first principles: what are the most important things you want from your college experience? some possible factors are
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academic intensity (not the same thing as academic quality! check out Swarthmore for an example of academic intensity as a campus culture). It might help to think of it in work/life balance terms: what do you want?
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community experience: do you want a more extroverted / sporty / school spirit environment or a more do your own thing / find your people experience? how much- and what kind- of diversity do want?
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specific programs- are there things that you want to have available (academic programs (eg Chicago/Columbia core or the Kenyon Review Program)/ departments / cultural / religious / activity / academic / vocational)?
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cost:benefit- what is your first choice of your instate options, what is the cost of that option, and how much better does another choice have to be to make it worth paying more? how much more is it worth paying (this is what @tsbna44 was getting at)
Then figure out what colleges that are good for those elements. Build as close as possible from the bottom up.
Every single college on your current list meets that criterion in spades- as do easily 100 other colleges.
ps, your school may not rank but dollars to doughnuts you know roughly where you stand in your class- are you in the top tier?