Safety College Suggestions

“I’m hoping that my safeties cost below $40K”

Have you run the NPC on the schools on your list? It is not clear to me whether any of the schools on your list are going to come in under $40k. It seems likely that something will, but I couldn’t point to any school on the list where I could say that you will get in and it will be under $40k.

If this is a strict budget limit, then at a minimum you need to run the NPC and you might want to have one or two safeties that are not in the US.

I agree with others that your list has a rather wide range of schools.

I would be mildly surprised if any of NYU, BU, UCLA, or UCB came in under $40k.