You really don’t have too many choices for ED1 or ED2. Assuming you’ve already made a decision, your question about LACs in the RD round deserves some attention. In general, Americans who apply to LACs aren’t seeking name recognition. They tend to be second and third generation college educated; they tend to earn above average salaries; they tend to look for places that give a lot of personal attention.
It’s also highly likely that there are only one or two degrees of separation between themselves and someone who attended one of these colleges. In other words, they tend to already be fairly well-connected. There was recently a discussion pertaining to these colleges on the “NESCAC Spoken Here” thread:
I made the following observation about which there was further discussion:
And there’s this sub-thread regarding location and selectivity: