USA university advice?

Best thing I can recommend for you is the website collegeboard.com - you can do really detailed searches for American universities that fill certain specific criteria; i.e. tuition range, accreditation, on-campus living, etc. When you go to the website, just click the For Students link, and then there should be an option to "Find a College" - that's what you want. And, just making sure you know (because I know it confused me when I came as an American student to the UK) that in the US, the terms college and university are interchangeable.