I had a brief delay before a meeting, so I only have a few minutes. You’ve shared a lot in your recent posts that would take more time to address than I have at present.
It is 100% okay to ask people about their methodologies. As @ColdWombat indicated, biology is a bread-and-butter department for many colleges and most colleges in the U.S. would prepare you well for med school. Apart from your preference for a school to have an actual campus and to be about academics and its programs and not primarily about its faith, there wasn’t much to go on with respect to what you were looking for. In looking at the schools you mentioned, you seemed to be looking for mid to large schools with a preference for cities, but not exclusively.
When doing a college search, it’s often best to start with the most limiting factors. As you had mentioned ASL (and it would be a good skill to have in healthcare), I knew that would be the most limiting factor. So I used College Navigator to find out which institutions offered a degree in both registered nursing (which is often not offered at many of the “elite” schools you might be thinking of) as well as ASL. I then selected ones that I thought best met the criteria I tried to suss out from what you shared in your initial posts.
With respect to my general search techniques, this linked post may provide more information.