I’ll give you some free pieces of advice. Drop the “dream school” thing. Make yourself a list of colleges that are a variety of acceptance levels for you…based on what you have to include in your application.
Build your application from the bottom up. Find a couple of pretty sure things for acceptance that are affordable. Those could be the hardest to find. Then build up from there…next find some schools with very likely and affordable acceptances. Then look at your reach schools…like Stanford which is a reach for everyone who applies. It’s easy to find the tippy top reach schools. Not so easy to find the others where you actually have a better chance of acceptance.
Some good suggestions were given to you on your December thread. You might want to read it again.
You are a NY resident with some great instate options that would be affordable and are great schools. Maybe start with those.