And there’s the cost issue. They certainly could come in with merit - but the OP still needs to find “assured” schools at $60K. But first they need to decide if spending $240K makes sense when they’ll have options from $0K (assured at Tulsa) to maybe $30K max total if that over four years via some of the NMFs - and at Bama, that would include a Masters if they desired.
I’d start there b4 moving up the cost market - assuming they’d rather retain that money.
Good luck to OP.