@TampaGirl21 : you have to start your own thread asking your own question. Asking your question on someone else’s thread is called 'hijacking ’ as is considered poor manners on a forum.
Briefly: you can’t borrow that much. Saddling your parents with that much debt sounds pretty selfish. Start your own thread, explain your choices, costs, and stats, and you’ll get more answers.
Okay. Guys. Out of all of the schools I applied to I got waitlisted for many and got into one. Haha… But I’m okay with it. Because I know my profile did not represent my abilities. So… Hoping that I prove myself in college and transfer.
I might be mistaken but I think college will be easier for me. School has always been my escape, and then my life will revolve around it! And also I won’t be around my mother. She’s kinda been getting worse. She’s been telling me how she thinks god is punishing her for having me and how her life would have been so much better if I were never born. I feel so terrible leaving though. She’s depressed and crying a lot. I don’t want to leave her. But at the same time it’s hard when she’s telling me it’s my fault. I don’t know what to do! Oh also, I can leave the house that the incident happened in! And I’ve already basically raised myself so it won’t be that much of a change in college.
Hmmm… don’t get me wrong, I was in a terrible state. It’s hard to work so hard and fail and see someone who didn’t even write his application and my interviewer thinks it a horrible idea for him to go to get in. But, I’ve resolved to work harder.
How can I transfer? I know it’s hard but it won’t stop me from trying! 
What UC did you get into? Is it affordable? If so, deposit there.
Choose housing carefully - I’d recommend a living learning community or a residential program or a quiet floor/substance-free floor/healthy living floor.
And yes, with a toxic home life, moving away and living on campus will make a huge difference.
It’s hard to transfer and transfers get lousy aid, so that often their only choice is an instate public university (if they can afford it). Always go to college thinking you’ll spend your 4 years there, not as a stepping stone to another college, because that’s unlikely to materialize.
You’ll get a second chance soon: around May 5th, a list of colleges that miscalculated yield will be published by NACAC. There’s always a bunch of really good colleges on there. If you send your essays to experienced readers (like @Lindagaf) we’ll be able to help you. If your commonapp essay is reviewed/edited within a month, and you start working on a “why college z” template, you could have those “May” apps ready to go as soon as the list comes up, and at that point the early bird gets the worm, ie., get the application out within three days and you get dibs on the best financial aid.
@MYOS1634 I got into UCSB. $13,968 is what google says for me without financial aid as an instate resident.
Well, it’s not like I have much of a choice on where I go. I know it’s so stupid and reckless, but I really don’t mind the “lousy aid.” I just want to a school that offers more undergrad research.
Really? I never heard of NACAC. How do I know which essays to write if I don’t know which colleges? Oh do you mean just common app essays?
Thank you!
Yes. Adults here can review your general Commonapp essay between now and May first, and we can review your ‘why college X’ template to see how it can improve, in planning for a try at the nacac list.
In the meanwhile, deposit at ucsb. It’s an excellent university and it sounds affordable.
Did you get Regents?
So you are sentenced to 4 years in the paradise that is Santa Barbara. That’s the next stop on your dream life. Make the most of it. Congrats.