Good for you for asking this question now! there are quite a few posters who didn’t and are now getting strings of rejections, with ‘safeties’ that they loath.
Of course you can apply to those schools, but as @Lindagaf points out, it is not a lottery where the more you play the better your chances. At the level of selectivity you are talking about, results can be surprisingly idiosyncratic (in stats talk, they are independent). Many, many students turned down by a ‘lower’ or ‘equally’ ranked college only to get into a ‘higher’ ranked place.
As @lookingforward suggested, dig into the schools you are interested- learn more about them and figure out a good ‘why them?’. Work out how your best things align with what the college emphasizes. In my experience (which is admittedly limited, but does include a collegekid at one of them who had offers from both), the student who responds to Brown frequently does not respond to Cornell- and vice-versa.
Also, Naviance is particularly helpful for places like UVa and UCLA, where the admissions stats for in-state and OOS applicants tend to be noticeably different.