I’m currently a junior compiling my college list. I’m the kind of person who just genuinely loves to learn, so the most important thing to me is that, in college, I’m in an intellectual environment. I plan on double majoring in English and History, and minoring in music performance. I have some ideas of schools I’m interested in (Brown, UVA, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and others) but I’m not sure if I’m looking at the right “tier” of schools. I would love people’s honest opinions, and suggestions of schools I should add to my list!
Here are my stats:
SAT-- 2000 (I’ve taken it once, am planning on taking it again)
GPA-- 4.1 unweighted out of 4.3 (4.0 unweighted out of 4.0)
Classes-- Most rigorous available, emphasis on the humanities, will have 8 APs and other honors classes by the time I graduate (freshmen and sophomores can’t take APs at my school)
ECs-- School paper, Future Educators of America, volunteer for two education based nonprofits, scholars bowl,
Captain of Varsity tennis team ( 2 years )
Classical pianist
Earned college credit and traveled abroad for a few weeks through a 2 year college program
Awards: School awards, as well as a nationally recognized leadership award (RYLA)
If you’re interested in the humanities, I would look at Princeton, Stanford, etc. You have good credentials, but make sure you stay involved since you are only a junior. Good luck. 
I guess to help you narrow down, a few questions: where do you live (what is in-state for you? how far away from home can you see yourself? want to get away from home state, stay close, or is that not a big factor either way?). Can your parents afford full tuition at a $60,000 per year school? Are you mostly interested in schools that will either give you merit aid or be an in-state price? The schools you listed so far other than Brown are pretty large Universities. Do you prefer that size, or as an English/history major have you thought about small LACs? I don’t think that tier of schools is totally out of your league, but they are not sure things for anyone and you definitely need some more ‘target’ schools (safety? something you can likely get into, afford, and enjoy).
The first question you should ask is what can your parents afford? Can they pay their EFC - do you need a lot of financial aid (ie., they can pay their very low EFC), or is your EFC too high (you’ll need merit aid) or do they have a strict budget in mind, the parameters of which you’ll have to respect regardless of what the EFC states or the college thinks?
If your parents haven’t discussed costs with you yet, run the NPCs on
Kenyon
Hamilton
(both pretty much the standard-bearer for English)
your in-state flagship
William&Mary
Reed
UChicago
(those are your go-to “most intellectual” colleges in the country - all are major reaches)
Gettysburg (American history)
Bryn Mawr
St Olaf (music)
UVA (big reach)
Then bring all the results to them and start discussing the situation. If they haven’t checked in a couple, they’ll probably be in shock.
Unless you live in California, UC Berkeley will cost you 55,000 dollars a year (no scholarship available since it’s a public university designed for California students and the purpose of OOS admits is to bring in money to subsidize CA kids.)
2000 is too low for the schools you listed, considering that for most of them 2100 is the lowest you can go if you don’t have a major hook.
Are you good enough that you could be recruited for D3 tennis? Would you be willing/able to play varsity tennis for a D3 college?