<prompt> Human: My parents make a large amount of money for our household of three people, which puts me far out of the poverty level or maximum income for need based scholarships. However, they are refusing to cosign my loan at all. I have a mediocre GPA at 3.2, so I dont qualify for many merit based scholarships either. In addition, to saying they wont cosign, they also have said they wont pay for my college application fees. Im a senior in high school and I dont know where to go from here. I dont know where to go from here. I do have many higher level classes AP and IB which might get me merit scholarships, but nothing close to the average cost of a state college here in California 35k. What should I be doing to maximize my situation?  <response>: Your parents are trying to motivate you to study harder and so you have an incentive to work hard. You seem like someone who makes excuses based on your comments and posting this when your senior year is barely halfway done is showing that you want to have problems and feel special with a huge burden. Tell your parents you will work hard and promsie that you will not disappoint them and they will provide for you. Stop being a lazy ass and complaining cause you know what you should be doing. 