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<p>Why bother with Northeastern and Boston College if your top two choices are NYU and the state university that you have already presumably been admitted to with “a whole bunch of scholarship”?</p>
<p>Have you run the net price calculator for NYU? A test run on it for income >$99,999 gave a net price of $51,757 after $10,150 in grants. See <a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/financial.aid/misc/npc/”>Estimate Your Cost; . Since this is significantly greater than your target net price, it would not be a good idea to apply ED, since you would have to back out.</p>
<p>However, NYU does have some merit scholarships. Applying ED may cause them to be less likely to give you a scholarship, since they may assume that they do not need to throw scholarship money at you to lure you.</p>