Okay I hope this makes sense. I am in tears right now. I chose a college very very far away from my home and completely regret picking it and it hasn’t even started yet. I got into great schools near my home and unfortunately picked a school farther away for the “adventure”. Now I am completely regret this and I don’t know what to do. I am considering just going to a community college but then all my hard work in high school will go to waste. I just don’t know what to do. I am not the type of person who can do well far away from home, I don’t know what I was thinking. Hindsight is 20/20 and now I just wish I could go back in time and make a better decision. I have no clue what to do. I won’t be able to transfer until junior year and my only other option is to go to a community college. I am leaning towards community college right now, but I’m worried that it will be letting everyone down, and I may not get into the four year schools I had previously gotten into. 
Contact the schools near your home and see if any of those spots are still available.
I’m sure you CAN do well away from home! It’s normal to feel some anxiety before a big life change and to doubt oneself. Don’t let it get the best of you. Tell yourself you can do it. And as Dory says, “Just keep swimming.”
The most interesting and successful people I know are the ones who take the chances and make the decisions that aren’t always the easiest. I think moving away from home is part of that. It allows you to be yourself without worrying about what others may think, to be who you want to be, and to be independent. Those are all very good things.
Don’t take the easy route. Community college will always be there. The college that accepted you would not have if they didn’t feel you were capable of handling it.
Swing for the fences and don’t look back. Seriously, you can do this.
I had the same feeling last year. My advice is that you should go to the farther away college and you may actually end up liking it. I thought I had screwed up big time but when I got to the college I realized I chose it for a reason and ended up loving my experience. I would give the school a chance before going to Community college.
You don’t know this, because you’ve never been far from home.
Something in your heart led you to apply for and accept this far-away school. That something believes you can do it. Trust it.
What you’re feeling now is the fear of the unknown and the fear of failure. Don’t let that define your life, or your life will be very small.
Two things are permanent: Death and Tattoos. And Tattoos not even so much. Take a deep breath and don’t make any hasty decisions.
I don’t know you but I bet if I did I would counsel you as the others here wisely have: Contact the others schools and see what you can make happen, and if no option is to your liking, then take the adventure head on. You’ll do great.
Community college is not your only option. Think carefully about taking a Gap Year. It really, truly, is OK to pick up the phone, contact the place you have been planning to attend, and let them know that you need to defer admission for a semester or a year.
Provided you don’t take classes anywhere during your time off (and you do deserve the chance to take time off from the academic treadmill you’ve been on since pre-school), you will still be a freshman applicant if you decide that place really isn’t for you and that you want to apply to a whole new list.
I would also caution you to realize that right now…EVERYTHING about college is an unknown.
What is my room like? What is my roommate like? What are my classes like? What is the food like? Will I make friends?
But once you go to orientation, you make friends. You personalize your dorm .You get to know your roommate. You meet your professors. You find out where to get the good food on campus.
This will be the same whether you are close or far away from home…it just takes longer to get home.
Wait, so you haven’t given the faraway school a shot and are already considering dropping it?
Give it a semester or two, and focus on earning a high GPA (3.5+). That way you’ll make a more informed decision later and have chances for transferring out, if that’s something you would like to do.
Alternately, you might end up enjoying college. Who knows?
OP, have you left for school yet? I encourage you to embrace the adventure, get some good grades, and then decide later if you want to stay there all four years.