<p>Thanks for all the advice, everybody.</p>
<p>@tk21679- Miami of Ohio is the school that they want me to go to. Probably about $30k/yr, and I am unlikely to get any merit aid. However, for many of the private Uni’s, I think I could bring the price tag down to this level our lower ($70k is actually what I consider to be my “debt limit”)</p>
<p>@Gwen Fairfax- I’ll have to try doing that. It might work, especially since I know my guidance counselor so well. Also, one parent is a Miami alumnus, other went to a mid-sized Catholic school.</p>
<p>@Mom2collegekids- Thanks so much for your help 
- Yes, you are correct in assuming that I am male, unable to find anything, and spacey. I didn’t realize this could be such a concern for my parents, because I really do consider myself to be responsible. However, I do get the vibe from then that they think I am “incompetent”, despite what I have accomplished and am currently doing (my word, not theirs…).</p>
<p>Honors colleges are something that I have been putting a great deal of emphasis on, especially considering that I am borderline for Miami’s and that the program would be the only way that I could really enjoy the university IMO.</p>
<p>Very good point about small schools; coming from a school that is extremely small I understand the problems with schools of a small size. It’s nice to know that honors colleges can really make a school “smaller”, but I’ve still got the “big school fear”. Stupid, I know :)</p>
<p>SAT breakdown in 670 CR/680 M/750 W.</p>