I would just add, if you’re NMF, and it sounds like you will be you might consider Alabama where you’d crush the budget - and get 5 years tuition, 4 years housing, and $4K a year (which basically covers food). So even a Masters would be free tuition.
You have tons on your list - but they are mainly substitutional and note that FSU’s engineering is a few miles off campus, shared with FAMU.
You note volunteering at a Temple, 100+ hours. I’m not sure if that’s a Jewish temple or another religion but Bama has over 1K Jewish students (1,250 per Hillel) and is a top 60 school nationwide in Jewish population. The Bloom Hillel has a really nice facility and is active.
My son chose it over Purdue and had 19 interviews and 5 offers by xmas and a 6th from his intern company.
I don’t think you need any other schools - but if you’re a NMF and if you’re Jewish (don’t know), it’s certainly reasonable to look at it given the largesse and amount of $$ you’d save, not to mention the campus is stunning so it might be a great fit.
I do think the UCs were a poor choice given your budget. And if you don’t qualify for need, then your low probability schools were too. You say flexible on your $60K budget, but does that include $95K? If so, then you don’t really have a cost constraint. But you could have applied to top schools like Ga Tech that are equivalent to your high reach and hit the budget.
The student can certainly get into any school on the list and probably gets into most. I do wonder why it’s Material Engineering at most but then CS or Engineering at others.
Why apply to the others if they want materials engineering?
In my opinion, major over school - because you want to study what you want to study, not study something different just because of a rank. And stick within your budget, which you created for a reason.
Good luck.