If Brown is your reach school, you may want to seriously consider Wesleyan University which resembles it in terms of history, geographic location, and branding - but not quite in single-digit admit territory. Wesleyan is a LAC with a top-notch reputation in the research sciences that, not incidentally, practices affirmative action for male applicants:
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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