You have a little bit of a unicorn requirement: you don’t want to go too “low” in rankings, you’ve listed a lot of private schools, but you don’t want to pay too much. Most of the higher ranked schools don’t give much if any merit, so how much aid you get will depend almost solely on how much you need (according to their calculations)… You will get a lot more opportunity for merit the further down the rankings you go. So, you also need to look at how your stats stack up against the colleges you’re aiming at, because you are much more likely to get serious money if your stats are above the 75th percentile.