<p>Don’t rule it out at all.</p>
<p>Look for schools that meet 100% of demonstrated need–a lot of times they will keep things in mind such as the fact that you support outside family members. If you go to a school that uses the CSS Profile it’ll allow a lot of things to contribute to what your aid is. </p>
<p>I’m going to send you a message about my financial situation and what happened; I don’t want to go into TOO much detail on here. it worked out really well for me and hopefully will for you too :)</p>