@senseless_panic not sure if someone already responded to you privately, but I directly wrote to Bill Howard, the assistant dean of admissions, and explained to him that BC was my absolute first choice, but had received such and such scholarship offers from Columbia and NYU, and was not financially equipped to pay full tuition at this time. In less than 24 hours he offered to match the higher of the two! I'm also planning on applying to outside scholarships, and possibly GAs. Anything helps!