<p>the schools on your list most similar and most fitting to what you’re looking for are:</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
Princeton
Stanford</p>
<p>these schools are a lot alike in many ways, mostly in the ways that you described as important (beautiful, small-medium, friendly and not too complicated environment)</p>
<p>another to consider might be cornell, but it is reputedly both less friendly than the schools i just listed as well as BIG, but it might make up for some of that size in beauty (although it’s in the middle of nowhere)</p>