<p>@DrGoogle My brother will be in college at the same time as me for the first year so my parents are splitting the $7,000 that they are paying out of their pocket between us. I wouldn’t label my family as “poor,” but we are far from rich and have to take out loans. So in all I will have $19,000 without scholarships for school: $3,500 from my parents, $3,000 from my grandpa, $7,000 taken from house mortgage, and $5,500 from FAFSA (that is how much my brother currently gets). Other than that I have to pay through merit scholarships and outside ones from my school or organizations. I’m sure I will get some type of merit aid considering my brother got the second highest type of merit aid from his school (OOS, Butler) and his stats were nowhere near mine (~3.5 UW GPA, 29 ACT, only 4 AP classes, barely in the top 20% of his class, and very few extracurriculars). I don’t want to make it seem like he was a bad student because he’s very smart, but I’ve worked a lot harder in school to make sure I can go to a decent college.</p>