You ED’d. Why would you expect merit ? If you needed money and did not qualify for need aid, you should not have applied ED. You played the game and lost.
Why would you expect a school that has you in a binding commitment to give you money ? Maybe you could have hoped but you should not have expected it.
You can appeal but they’re just going to tell you the same thing. This is common knowledge up front.
Good luck
Edit: I should add - when you were accepted ED, you needed to withdraw all of your other apps. So where could you even go to??