My advice would be to focus on schools where you will be a superstar. In other words, where you will be one of the very top applicants academically. I know a boy with amazing stats who needed full aid get rejected everywhere, but the Salisbury School gave him a full ride. That boy crushed it at Salisbury and is now at Williams.
In other words, it’s helpful, given many schools have limited financial aid budgets, to be one of the applicants they really, really want. Where you are way over the average academic profile for the school.