It has never been easier than it is right now to look at colleges. We have been watching virtual tours with DD and they have been extremely informative. In a typical virtual tour, one gets perspective and impressions from multiple students, not just the one tour guide to which one would be assigned for an in-person tour (who may or may not know anything about how things run in the major or department of interest).
Take some tours - NOT of Brown or UCLA or anything unaffordable. Start looking at tours of Florida’s directional colleges, maybe some colleges ranked outside the top 75 top universities or so. Watch those tours with an open mind and you just might find yourself, as we did, amazed at the possibilities out there.
I agree it is too early to put together a college list. It is not too early to get a sampling of what is out there, provided you are indeed sampling colleges of various sizes, rankings, location. and focus - and not daydreaming over colleges that are unaffordable and reaches-for-everyone type places.