The alabama app is live now.
You would get a lot of merit there.
Does the $25k/yr include flights here?
Is that 1450 a superscore or a single sitting score? Are you retesting?
What is your major and career goal?
And that above post about “average aid” from those tippy top schools is not reliable. Average means nothing to an individual. We don’t know how affluent this family is.
And getting into those schools is a crapshoot.