Coming from CA, you could get the WUE rate as a baseline from U of Utah, U of New Mexico, and UNLV. All three would give you additional merit aid that would lower the cost even further. Non-flagships in WUE like Northern Arizona, Western Oregon, Northern Arizona and Utah State, would offer even more merit. (I haven’t checked on direct entry at all of these, just ran the WUE search for nursing programs.) http://wue.wiche.edu/search1.jsp
St. Olaf is a terrific private LAC with a direct entry nursing program, that would offer merit for your stats; but I’m not sure their max merit would get to your price point.
Check out the Nurse Scholar program at Michigan State http://nursing.msu.edu/bsn%20programs/Nurse%20Scholar%20Program/Nurse%20Scholar%20Program.htm There is some good merit there for top students.