<prompt> Human: Im a 17 year old middle class white male living in Little Rock, Arkansas. I have a 31 on the ACT and a 3.8 GPA unweighted. Ill probably have a decent amount of college credits when I graduate about a semesters worth, so I dont have too much to do in terms of basic requirements for a degree. I plan on majoring in computer science. My parents are divorced and remarried, and I have a total of three older siblings all step and six younger siblings two step. My dad and stepmom have the six younger siblings and one older who isnt going to college anytime soon, and I just talked to them today about financing college. My dad probably makes a fair bit of money, my stepmom some but not a ton. They said they had no idea how much they could pay because they dont know how theyre doing financially, and they dont have a retirement fund. So Im assuming theyre in the shitter financially. Also my stepmom planned on going back to school next January, so theyre definitely going to be very, very, stretched. They probably want me to go to a cheap in-state school, but the schools here just arent that good, Arkansas is especially awful in terms of education.My mom and stepdad have two older siblings, one of whom is entering trade school this fall, and another is going to college in California. My stepdad definitely makes a lot of money, and my mom probably makes a bit less or more than my stepmom. I just asked my mom about finances for college today, and while she isnt sure and definitely isnt much better at my dadstepmom at finances, shell probably be able to help me out some. She suggested for me to spend a year or two at an in-state school, and then transfer to somewhere better.These are the colleges Ive been heavily considering: University of Alabama - Can get full tuition 2500 hundred a year, maybe a little bit more, and it seems like a pretty good school with an excellent honors program, but Ive heard that their Computer Science department is taught by a lot of TAs and isnt well organized. Its on an entirely different level than the two other choices. University of Arkansas at Little Rock - Can probably get a full ride, but the average student there isnt too bright and the reputation of it is absolutely terrible. Its just not a very good school in terms of academics. I dont plan on living with my parents, Im sorry but Im not going to tell people I sleep in my moms basement with four children over there half the time, I want to have a social life in college. Arkansas Tech University - Again can probably get a full ride, but the average student isnt too bright and its really not that good of a school.So my options are pretty much:1. Raise my standards and probably go to a better school than all 3 of these, but take on a lot more loans and debt as a result. 2. Go to University of Alabama.3. Spend four years at one of the in-state schools.4. Go to one of the cheap state schools for onetwo years, and then transfer to University of Alabama or somewhere better.My gut is telling me that numbers 1 or 2 are probably the best choices, Id try to become a TA or get a work-study if I went for any of those choices except 3.edit: Im not too sure about internships in Arkansas, the only computer science company that seems very notable is Acxiom, but there may be more. Also Im not 100 sure Ill get a full ride to either of these schools, but I stand a pretty good chance.edit 2: My dad and stepmom have primary custody, so thats better for FASFA, but my mom counts my two youngest siblings as dependents on her taxes even though she doesnt pay for 50 of their expenses and hasnt ever paid for their child support like shes supposed to, so I probably need to figure out if its a good idea to try and get her to take them off, or if it doesnt matter with my number of siblings.  <response>: Id go to the best school that pays you the most money. 