<p>wellesley if you're female...</p>
<p>michigan has a huge emphasis on sports. depending on who you're friends with, it could be intellectual or not</p>
<p>You might want to look into Macalester, Oberlin, Bates and Colby.</p>
<p>Yes, if you don't want a large school, I'd skip Michigan. It's huge and very easy to feel anonymous compared to many of the other schools on your list (this from someone who had the majority of his friends go to Michigan).</p>
<p>i think you need some more matches/safties. </p>
<p>Harvard (SCEA)
Stanford or MIT
Princeton or Yale
Columbia or Chicago
Amherst or Swarthmore
Carleton
Grinnell
Vassar or Haverford
UMichigan
McGill
Rutgers</p>