ISO East Coast or Midwest colleges with cool, open-minded, friendly intellectuals

Clark, Skidmore, College of Wooster, Denison, Dickinson. Although none of them have much in the way of sports. Does he want to play a sport or just attend games? Any particular sport? (My D22 would
love a big football school but would settle for basketball as well). In my research, a lot of the mid-sized schools with good sports, small class sizes and no Greek life seem to be Catholic.