<p>Hello All,
I am an uprising senior in HS, and I am currently live in Texas. All academics aside, a few of the schools I am interested in applying to are in Pennsylvania (Carnegie Mellon), Tennessee (Vanderbilt), Louisiana (Tulane), and possibly California (USC). </p>
<p>My family is super low income (under 40,000), and I am hoping for a generous need based financial aid package (in combination with academics/music). If I do decide to attend a University outside of Texas (I will be applying to several in Texas), how am I going to pay for the plane ticket/bus ride/train/gas for car/ANYTHING to get myself home for the holidays and summer?</p>
<p>Amongst a plethora of other concerns related to going "too far away" (as my mother lovingly calls it), how do other students handle/deal with going to a University/College that is not in their state or is "far" away? Does anyone have any experience with this that can help me? I hear of students going out of state all the time, how do they manage?</p>
<p>Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.</p>