You mentioned that your sibling was paid to go to college. As a National Merit Semi-Finalist (no need to be a Finalist), the University of Tulsa will award you:
- Full tuition (excluding summers) for five years or until an undergraduate degree is earned.
- Tier I Room and Board
- Standard Student Fees
- Textbooks
- Secured spot in Leadership TU led by President Brad Carson
- $6,000 monetary gift per year
If you become a Finalist, you are eligible for an additional $750/year.
https://utulsa.edu/financial-aid/scholarships/nmsf/
Edit to add posts about TU’s program.
TU is ranked #12 in WSJ Top 20 Private Colleges for Engineering Salaries
25% of this year’s entering class are National Merit. They have a 1.5 billion dollar endowment
Summary of a student’s visit to TU - including the comment, “admissions set us up with a meeting with a professor in the CS department and truly we came out of that meeting dumbfounded. What they do there, in CompSci in general and CyberSecurity in specific, is on another level.”