If your child will qualify for the need based financial aid, with your child’s stats, I suggest that they run the NPC at the elite schools - for my pups they ended up being much cheaper than every other option (even with the top scholarships they would have gotten at other schools… The trick is of course getting in, but DS and DD were both valedictorians, DS majored in physics at Columbia, and DD changed from being a physics major to a CS major at Stanford.
Every year we hear about families who think because these schools are so expensive, they don’t think they should apply.