<p>No grounds, really.
Well, since they are not a need blind school and I applied for financial aid, I can say that I don’t fully need financial aid anymore?
How about appealing to the chair of the department I intend to major in? Like, writing a letter expressing the research I intend to do there.
I doubt it’d work, but as the previous posts say, the worst they can say is no, right?</p>