Please help me with some matches/safeties...

<p>I'll try to make this as brief as possible- I'm looking for a school in the Northeast with a student body size of at least 4,000 and preferably no bigger than 10,000 (the lower limit is more important to me, I don't want a tiny school...even though I love a lot of the LACs, they're just too small for me.) City or college town, not rural. Students who care about learning- so I guess no schools that are heavily pre-professional. Curriculum- as flexible as possible (so nothing like Columbia's 2 year core.) I think that about covers my preferences...</p>

<p>And here are my objective stats,
SATI: 2360
SATII: Lit (750), MathII (710)
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.85 UW
Senior Courseload: Full IB diploma</p>

<p>Brown is my dream school, but of course I need some matches and safeties as well. This is the (very tentative) list I have so far on CommonApp. I'd really, really appreciate it if you could tell me which schools on my list shouldn't be there (based on my preferences and stats), and if you could recommend some more matches and safeties (pretty sure I have enough reaches already!) Thank you so much!!!</p>

<p>Boston University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvard College
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Skidmore College
Stanford University
University of Michigan
University of Rochester
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University
Yale University</p>

<p>BU is way over 10,000. Otherwise your list looks good, if a bit reach-heavy. I was going to suggest Clark University in Worcester, MA as a safety, but it’s only 2,200 students. Tufts University outside of Boston might be a good match, it’s a university with an LAC feel and about 5,100 undergrads.</p>