Middlebury vs. Bowdoin vs. Brandeis vs. Wesleyan

Middlebury, Wesleyan and Colgate would be among the best choices in the country for the study of economics:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

Brandeis would also be superb for economics.

Bowdoin appears in a PR sampling, “Great Schools for Mathematics Majors,” and would be a solid choice for study in this field.

Vassar would be academically competitive with the best from your group and would offer a less sports oriented option:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9