If you are an international candidate, you may be limited in your choices. Are you a citizen?
Merit based scholarships are extremely hard to come by, so you have to rely on what your parents can actually pay, as well as what you provide in your courses and test scores.
Don’t come down hard on your parents, they aren’t obligated to give you a dime for your college education.
Let me repeat that because it needs emphasis. There is no law that says your parents have to fund your college education. It’s disrespectful and unnecessary to come down hard on your parents. You should be proud that they want to help family members since it sounds like they care about what happens to family.
As for school, take some of that “entitled” attitude and help them by paying your own way-going to a Community College-to save dollars for your university. Put up, or …
Take Berkeley off the list, since it will cost $58k per year, and there is no financial aid for nonresidents. Caltech is expensive and your PSAT doesn’t look strong compared to who they admit, so that goes off as well.
You are not the only “child” whose parents can’t afford to send him where he wants to go.