@Theunknown28 you should never apply to a second choice ED. You should have run the NPC in advance and only be planning to back out if the aid is less than you have expected. It’s not ethical to try game the system like you seem to be doing, I trust you will withdraw your ED application immediately on hearing from your EA college so that you do not perhaps end up taking the place of someone who applied ED to NYU in good faith. Because ED yield is so high the chances of you actually taking someone elses’s spot is much higher than in RD, assuming of course that you actually get in. What does your guidance counselor think of this plan, seeing as he or she must have signed the application too and there are implications for your high school?