<prompt> Human: I am currently a senior in high school in Texas. I have been a good student with high grades throughout all 4 years and will be graduating in the top 2 of the class of around 730 people. I am very interested in the sciences and technological subjects in school and did well in all the AP classes I took. It is my goal to attend Medical school and become a doctor. I applied to colleges all over the US and was accepted into numerous ones, including UCLA, College of William and Mary, Brandeis, and Northeastern to name a few. I also applied to numerous colleges in state as well, but neglected to keep up with transcript status and as a result, missed many deadlines for a plethora of institutions that I wouldnt have minded attending. As a result, after all the decisions have rolled in and the scholarship and financial aid packages distributed, I am faced with a decision of attending a rather un-academic University called Texas Tech, go to community college for two years and attempt to transfer into UT at Austinwhere I was automatic admission, but my transcript was one day late, and my appeal was rejected, or go to Northeastern University where I was given Dean of Engineering Scholarship of 40,000 spread over the four years as well as 54,400 in financial aid also over the four years. My parents are dead set on me attending Texas Tech, where my tuition will be around 10,000 per year, and laugh me off when I try suggest Northeastern, where I was accepted into BioEngineering, and see a path into going to medical school. Northeasterns tuition will be around 34,500 per year after all the financial aid packages and FAFSA loans offered are employed.I am seriously considering leaving home and attending Northeastern University and taking on all of the financial askings myself, with student loans from private sources and undertaking jobs and such while in college. I fear that at texas tech, which itself is situated in the middle of nowhere, I will not be able to get the chance nor receive connections necessary to follow my dream and fully tap into my lust for knowledge. I understand the common idea that your bachelors dont matter, and neither does the school etc. I know, I have heard it from my parents a hundred times. Is there any financial advice that I could have to improve my chances of success leaving everything behind and starting from the ground up on the other side of the country, while studying my ass off.  <response>: Your parents are right. 