Tips on finding an ideal price range for colleges when parents won't help?

To all students reading comments please be careful about your sources of information - even from well meaning posters. For example @collegemom3737 - The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program is a full ride merit scholarship offered at Duke and UNC - not UVA - UVA has The Jefferson. Additionally, there is no Morehouse scholarship at UNC but there is a Morehead-Cain.