Your story is not an unusual one in an applicant pool of those schools. I would look at Case Western, Univ of Rochester, Oberlin, Brandeis, Occidental, Washington & Lee (rural, conservative joint). EDII to any of those should be successful, if they offer what you want. The LAC’s recommended by another poster - Amherst, etc., are really tough. I would look at some that float beneath the radar: Lehigh, Wake Forest, Rhodes, University of Richmond, Grinnell, Denison. I can see you getting into these RD. They are very good institutions.
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