Ok, so you won’t get a full ride to Wayne State and you won’t get the same stipend as the NMF scholars at UAlabama. You can still get very nice scholarships at those universities if you wish to apply and since top 50 colleges don’t care about NMF (there’s not even space for it on the CommonApp), there’s no reason to think about it still.
What about planning a Spring Break trip to visit colleges in another region of the US? 