You say that you don’t care about prestige as much as others then I gently encourage you to look beyond the T30.
I would also gently encourage you to skip Uchicago and Swarthore. Very intellectually competitive in a not pleasant way. My family has had three gens of UChicago and I’ve known several people over the years who’ve attended Swat and, while both are great for the right person, they can be maddening and miserable if you’re not exactly that sort of person. Swat feels relatively isolated too compared with other schools in the consortium (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, UPenn)
Look more towards–
Yale,
Haverford/ and Bryn Mawr combo (they practically share campuses and BMC’s motto is practically “we care more about ideas”–check what it says on Niche about BMC and BMC has the advantage of having a larger endowment and offering great merit aid–and there are men on campus because of the Haverford co-college system; you also can take classes at UPenn),
Vassar was mentioned and I support that,
Wesleyan also very creative and intellectual.
If you want to look at engineering, check out Olin–known for its creative perspective.
Also consider: Wellesley, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke. Wellesley you can take classes at MIT. Smith and Mt. H are in a very creative consortium. To assess the classes you might want to google for the Five Colleges course catalog.
Also look at Pitzer or Pomona. At Pitzer they don’t have CS but they encourage combining various disciplines. You could combine CS with other things and the consortium has great CS offerings. Pitzer is very creative. If you like women’s colleges but attending classes with males, check out Scripps in the same consortium.