Confused rising senior needs a college list before the school year starts [NH resident, 4.0 GPA, 1470 SAT, 33 ACT, biology (pre-PhD, not pre-med)]

WIth a list like this, likely many. But they’d be substitutional.

For example, if you want a school similar to Tufts size wise, but an easier admit (Tufts is a reach), you might look at a Miami or Denver or Brandeis (a bit smaller) or SMU. Denver and SMU would be safe…Miami and Brandeis targets. …but with this list as is, I suspect you’d end up at a large or mid size public, and nothing wrong with that.

You talked about connections in your first - so that’d UMASS…but you also can look at the Philadelphia schools (if female, Bryn Mawr as an easier admit (small schoo but with access to Haverford, Swarthmore, Penn). If male Haverford.

Minnesota has this type of set up as do Atlanta schools (Emory) or California (the Claremont colleges). Whether these types of connections are regularly used probably determines on the locales and majors (can the home school support enough).

Good luck.