ASU with the $16.5 you’ll get per NPC is still under $45k.
Bama for you is still under $20k. And note they have a scholarship app where you can get more. I’m not sure if they purposely eliminate the natl recognition or they removed it due to the Supreme Court ruling. Only way to know is apply, list on the additional scholarship app and see. Apply only if interested.
UMN and UGA are big flagships. UGA and Bama, for example, have a lot in common. Both an hr-hr 15 from a big city airport. Both in small cities. Both large campuses. UF is another like this and Purdue too although academically Purdue is more STEM-Y.
UMN is another huge flagship - but it’s in the city. Fly Portland to Minneapolis, get on the light rail and within an hour you are there. Easy peasy. It’s also in a huge metro with a significant # of corporations right in the area.
Of those you listed Stevens and SMU are outliers. Stevens has many non tech majors but they’re an Institute of Technology. It’s male dominated as you’d expect.
SMU is a smaller, private version of those previously mentioned flagship schools with a wealthy audience and access to big time sports like the others mentioned.
The best way to tell schools apart - visit. If you can’t, lots of people, plus the schools themselves, have online tours.
Btw you have safeties, targets and reaches already and you can build that way but only one bucket is required - safety and under $45k. The rest can be as you desire.