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I think your intuition is spot on. While your admissions/merit scholarship results will likely be a bit more unpredictable, you should absolutely still blanket the T13 and at least a few T20s. Your numbers are absolutely first-rate and added to your URM status, I doubt a single C&F issue - while a serious one - will sink you.

You may wish to confer with a professional admissions consultant - the good ones have previously worked in admissions offices themselves, so they have direct experience what adcoms look for. I feel like this is one of the relatively rare cases where a consultant may add value (since typically admissions outcomes pretty slavishly follow GPA/LSAT).

You'll be fine. You would've been a expecting about 4-5 HYS offers/CCN full-rides and instead you'll probably get, like, 1-3 of those offers. Your hard factors are pure gold for Stanford and Chicago in particular.

If the disciplinary thing is as reasonable as you've described then you're basically a lock for at least one T14 full-ride.

I’d even spin that story as a positive.