<p>Apply to both UT Austin and Texas A&M. You are fortunate to have these excellent in-state universities to use as safeties.</p>
<p>Skip applying to out of state publics. They are unlikely to give you any aid, making them much more expensive than UT Austin or Texas A&M. Berkeley, UCLA, or Georgia Tech are not worth the full-price OOS tuition, especially when you have affordable in-state options.</p>
<p>Since you have two good safeties lined up, apply to reach private universities that can offer generous need-based financial aid. You mention Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, Caltech, and Harvey Mudd. Who knows?.. so go for it. Definitely apply to Rice, as they offer both need-based financial aid and merit aid.</p>