If you are interested in Pomona, which is part of the Claremont Consortium, you should apply instead to Pitzer or even Scripps (all female). Both should be easier to get into and there is such cross-programming that, other than your diploma and living arrangements, you’ll not even know which school you are attending. After being accepted to Pitzer my daughter found out on Admitted Students Day that Scripps just got a big donation for pottery so they were moving all the ceramics over there and that Pitzer’s creative writing program was mostly poetry so for prose she would need to take her classes at Pomona. She didn’t like the fluidity of the whole thing but most kids like it.
I second the midwest choices - those are schools which are very interested in (what appears to be) your type of student. We live in NY and my daughter goes to the midwest for college and loves it because the school has quirky but very intelligent, interested and interesting students. We had never heard of most of the schools she applied to - it’s the east coast snob factor (and the abundance of colleges there).
Good luck!