<p>What can your family contribute? Run the NPCs at HYPS and the other schools on your list. Have you run NPCs anywhere? As people have mentioned, you can only take out a small amount in loans yourself and your parents would have to take out the rest. If Yale is affordable, they’re looking to strengthen their engineering student body and would like more female engineers. Thus probably the easiest of the most prestigious schools for you to get in to right now.</p>