OP, do look at Univ of AL. ABET accredited. Great Honors College. You would be among a lot of high stat students as well as a lot from OOS including your neck of the woods. UA is the fastest growing flagship in the country for a variety of reasons - one is OOS students/families are ‘finding it’.
You would have full tuition scholarship plus $2500/year engineering scholarship. DD is a student there, and it is giving her a great education (she has these scholarships). She is also taking advantage of STEM MBA honors program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrV8g7kxJps How the school developed over the last 14 years.
UA has updated its Quick Facts http://viewbook.ua.edu/quick-facts/
(2014 enrollment breakdown by state - new undergraduates - which would be freshmen for the most part): http://oira.ua.edu/d/webreports/enrollment2/Fall_2014/f18.html
http://oira.ua.edu/d/webreports/enrollment2/Fall_2015/e10.html
This URL gives FALL 2015 data for all of the university (not just freshmen).