<p>Coffeeaddict9716, you’re not alone–my daughter started out with a very large and diverse list like yours. We spent 3 long weekends visiting 3 or 4 at a time that were geographically close by, and altogether represented a sampling of big, small, urban, suburban, Christian, catholic, not, etc…This really helped her to define the things she liked or not about each college or type of college. Whenever possible we tried to visit with her high school alumni at each one, and scheduled visits when classes were still in session to get an idea of what they were like. Her list is narrowed down now to about a dozen, many are on your list, but her list is still very diverse. Seems there’s always something really special about one, but something else it doesn’t have that another one does…but she feels she could be happy at any of them. She’ll probably narrow the list down further and apply to 8 -10. Here it is now (in some sort of ranking from “super hard reach” to “safety”: Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Washington University in St. Louis, Davidson, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Wheaton, Furman, Hillsdale, Centre, and University of Kentucky. She wants to major in history or english. As of today, her favorites are probably Notre Dame, Hillsdale, and Davidson. My best advice to you–start visiting as soon as you can! Much easier and more fun than preparing too many applications and sending them out to places you’ve never even seen. If you get accepted everywhere, you’ll only have about a month to decide! Also, a great book we’ve found to be pretty accurate for the ones we’ve visited: “Choosing the Right College, an ISI Guide.” Good luck!</p>