<p>The way most students go to college out fo state, private colleges, sleep away colleges, is that their parents pay for all or enough of the cost to make it possible. Though financial aid is out there, getting enough to pay the full cost, including transportation, living expenses, books as well as tuition and fees is a long shot If your family is low income, low asset enough for you to qualify for financial aid, it has to be according the the college’s calculations and definitions, not yours or your family, and even then, only a few schools meet even that kind of need for all of their students. Those schools tend to be the most selective college too. If you have high test scores, have taken rigorous courses and done well on them, then you would be a good candidate for such colleges and also for merit scholarships at any number of schools Also the better you are in terms of academic excellence, the better your chances of getting a good financial aid package even from schools that do not meet full need for most of their students. You could then be that rare student at such schools to have full need met…</p>
<p>Ask your parents what they will pay each year towards college for you. Then get income and asset information and fill out some NPCs of schools that interest you and see how much they are expecting you and your family to pay. The problem is that gap.</p>