<prompt> Human: High school senior here, going to give as much background info as possible here. I am already accepted into my first choice college about 100 miles away from home with a 10,000 a year scholarship, and have been planning to go since December. Now, my dad works at a college and I will be getting 25k from them toward any college AFTER my sophomore year, which gets rid of the 10k scholarship. I didnt get too much financial aid from this college which sucks.All of a sudden, my parents are almost forcing me to go to a nearby community college. This means I would have to stay at home for another two years. This is probably the worst possible outcome from all of this, as I have NO desire to stay at home and drive 40 mins to and 40 mins back from this community college. I will have no friends because they are all leaving this fall.So, I would probably be in 100k in debt once I graduate, parents cant really do much to help. If I go to this community college, it would be probably a quarter of that. I just cannot stand to think about basically two more years of high school by going to this community college.Im going to school for mechanical engineering.What should I do?EDIT: Thanks all!! Really, thank you all. Some of you have really helped me reinforce what I am going to be doing this fall, which will be attending a CC for two years then transferring. I sure as hell dont want to do this but I know these two years will go by fast and Ill thank myself and parents later down the road. Most of you guys have helped me feel better about this so thanks a ton.  <response>: 100k debt for a mechanical engineer is huge - your monthly payment will be over 1000mk. With your projected initial salary avg around 60k - 70k, if youre at MIT, thats a debt load of over 25 of your take home salary. Even IBR wont help much, as that caps it 15 iirc. You wont be able to buy a housecondo for a very long time typically, they want your debt load to be under 30, which leaves you 15 for PITI - and that assumes you have no car loan. You may not be able to put the kind of retirementhealth savings that you should.And this is before you consider a family.You would be significantly better off to go to the CC for two years, and then transfer to your 1 school. You will have the benefit of the namedegree assuming its worth the 100k tuition for 4 years, but half the debt. 