@MYOS1634 I’ve applied to Alabama and UT Austin, majoring in bio… for no-merit, I’ve gotten into Baylor, Southwestern, and Umass amherst honors college. It really means a lot that you said that 
unfortunately, my sister is what you would call an average good student- she has over a 4.0 weighted gpa, but average-good test scores. She does almost no extra curriculars, either. She insists that it doesn’t matter how much we have to pay, she wants to go somewhere she’ll be happy… which is the only thing she is really capable of thinking of when it comes to college. When I try to talk to her or my parents about financial safeties, I get shut out, told that it’s none of my business. She’s applying to extreme reach schools, such as bard, Oberlin, vassar, and Reed because she doesn’t understand that she can’t get into them or afford them. She is applying to mount Holyoke, my mom’s alma mater and a crushing financial blow to this family. When she gets in, it’s extremely likely she will attend while my parents slowly accumulate debt. I am really at a loss here… I might not even be able to go to umass amherst because it costs too much.