<p>If I were in your shoes, I’d try to go to CMU as much as possible. Get that reward letter from NU and see if the Financial Aid appeal with it causes any changes. If it doesn’t, then you “should” go to NU to save that 40k or so because Med school is going to steal your wallet and then some.</p>
<p>Of course, that is what you “should” do if you don’t plan on trying to reduce that 40k while in school. If you could cut that 10k/year down with a job/internship or whatever to something around 20k-25k after 4 years, I would go to CMU.</p>
<p>And yes, you should look up videos and do lots of online research on NU if you decide to go there and don’t visit. Last thing you want to have i regrets over a silly thing like the school not having any appeal to you and you went through all this trouble.</p>