<prompt> Human: San Antonio, TXAge: 17, soon to be 18, getting kicked out Apr 15My parents make too much for me to receive any financial aid, and I wrote that I will be staying at home for college. 15K unsubsidized loan for upcoming year of college, I am starting college in the summer and it will cover only tuition and books.Parents stated that they will pay for college now they are bailingHow will I pay for college?Aspiring doctor.First generation, no extended family in America to get help from. I dont really have friend to ask help from.  <response>: So first, becoming a doctor is hard. Dont assume for the sake of financial planning. keep that dream alive youre actually going to be a doctor until you are at least admitted to med school. Thats how you end up with only a bachelors degree in mcb ie salary starts 30k and 100k in student loans.First contact your school and let them know of the change in status. It might be too late to get a dorm or on campus housing. Depending on school, that might mean you need to delay going to school for a year because of some stupid policy about not living off campus unless with family. It might be possible to get financial aidescholarships.You need to next find a job and a place to live to tide you over till school starts. Save a much money as you can.Next, start finding and applying to every scholarship you can. Every little bit helps.Now you need to reevaluate your choice of college. Dont go more than 30,000 in total debt for your undergrad degree. Thats 7,500year. Assume you can only work 20 hours per week if you want to be a full time student. 20 hours per week for 52 weeks at federal minimum wage is 7,500 before taxes. Thats less than 15000 total for all your expenses. You shouldnt work full time in the summer because you need to focus on that extracuricular ahit that will get you into med school.If you cant do that for the college you were planning on attending, then you should probably go to community college for two years and then transfer or only be a half-enrolled student. This actually has a few benefits. Obviously its cheaper. But it will also probably be easier, either because youre at a jc or because you have fewer classes, so your grades will be better. If you go half time, then you could bump your work hours up to 30 to 40 hours per week at the expsense of taking longer to finish.Dont just get a degree that will be good for a doctor. If that falls through then youre going to have to use that degree to earn a living.Once you get into med school, you will pretty much have to take a loan. for a couple hundred thousand. Dont panic. If you live like a resident once you graduate you can pay it off relatively quickly, even if you get into a field that doesnt pay well. Say you make 150,000 after graduating 10th percentile of pay for an internist, and you owe 300,000 which is an overestimate total. Youre going to pay about 50,000 in taxes. Live on 50,000 and throw 50,000 at the loans. You will have it paid off in 7 years. If you finish college by 23 ie 5 years and take a year to get into med school youll be done with med school by 28. Figure another 4 years for residency and youre out at 32. Loans are gone by 39 at the latest. And thats making the bare minimum as an internist. The median salary for an internist is 200,000. 