<p>Thanks everyone for their calm responses - I’ve been kind of running on neurotic mode haha.</p>
<p>blueiguana: I ran the FAFSA without including the second house, and the EFC was $38k. When I including the second house, it jumped to $50k. I think perhaps the FAFSA expects my family to sell the second house?
I think also one of the main contributing issues to this mess is that I’m not quite sure what I want to major in. I’m between neuroscience/cognitive science/bioinformatics/math/engineering, but the majority of my high school ECs are writing-based. Honestly, I’m just a huge confused mess, and it’s happening at the completely wrong time. I’m kinda leaning towards the gap year because I actually am completely in flux on who I am and what I want to be.
Thanks for the gap-year link, I’m looking through it now.</p>