So your parents (with 7 kids) can afford to pay over $200,000 for your college education? State schools cost more for out of state students, and they give no need based aid and almost no merit aid to out of state students. My guess is that all the UCs are unaffordable for you.
The only thing that stands out for you from the crowd at the rest of the schools on your list besides UNL is geographic diversity. They all have piles of applicants that are highly qualified with strong ECs. I don’t see you getting in anyplace, although Cornell & Dartmouth may be low reaches. My advice is if you haven’t completed applications yet that you jettison all but a couple of the high reaches, and focus on finding more match schools. Your financial aid picture may be fuzzy, though (family farms put a kink into those net price calculators you find on each college website on the financial aid page – you should take a shot at running them anyway, though). Unless you are content to attend UNL, I’d change your school list.
Is food science even a major at the schools on your list? I don’t know what you would major in at Northwestern – you can’t get an undergrad business degree there, and they don’t offer food science as a major either. Same with UChicago. It seems like you just made a list of highly ranked schools, but didn’t check to see if they offer your major. Food science is most likely to be offered at a state university. Unfortunately, as discussed above, you are out of state for all but Nebraska schools. I am not aware of any reciprocity deals between Nebraska and other states except this site:
Ohio State gives some merit to OOS students as well. There are some schools that offer in-state tuition for higher test scores, too.
You still have to figure out if they are affordable, though.
Here is a site with automatic merit awards for stats. Look at University of Alabama. Don’t forget that if you get tuition, you still need to cover room & board, books, expenses, and travel. You also need health care coverage that works at the college location, or most colleges will make you purchase theirs.
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/
But as I said, deadlines are looming. You will have to get moving if you want to meet them for these schools.