If your suggested tiers are based on statistical factors, you may have underestimated the strength of LACs. These colleges have entering standardized scoring no less than equal to that of Cal-Berkeley, for example:
Harvey Mudd
Pomona
Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna
Carleton
Haverford
Vassar
Grinnell
Hamilton
That point dispatched with, should you want to roughly place yourself among all schools with respect to your own admissions prospects, you can cross-reference your own record with that of an analysis such as “The 610 Smartest Colleges” (Business Insider). Your personal “safer” schools may simply be those along the range at which your standardized scoring would place you beyond the 75th percentile when compared to attending students. However, your impressive 4.0 could be a very strong factor on your behalf even at schools above this range.