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<p>Yes, that can be done, but the OP should also have some safeties at least in mind (and be ready to apply to them before their admission and scholarship deadlines if no favorable decision from any EA school comes in time).</p>
<p>Right now, the OP’s two “safeties” are both reaches for cost and financial aid, so they are not actual safeties.</p>