I will not qualify for any need-based aid. What is my best plan of action to help out my parents?

What do you want to major in? Are you strictly liberal arts, or are you more interested in a career in a STEM field? From what I have read on this board, pre-med students need top grades, but not top schools - they should save the money for medical school (the undergrad doesn’t matter as much as the GPA to med schools) - if you are interested in going on in Business Consulting, and working for a top firm such as BCG, they want to hire students who have been to an Ivy, as this helps them with clients (“our staff is Ivy educated.”) If you are interested in engineering, there are a number of engineering schools recommended over Ivy’s, as they are more affordable, and it doesn’t really matter after your first job.

I know of a few families who wanted their kids to go to Ivy’s because of the bragging rights - one couple would repeatedly put down the schools other students were applying to. Ugh. Ultimately, there are schools which are right for you, not your parents, and which might be Ivy League, or might be elsewhere.