2.4 GPA and 1190 SAT/24 ACT, please help me, please

It seems like it is the parents are hung up on prestige, since the OP is willing to start at a community college, but the parents are opposed to that (see post #0).

The parents need to make accounts, ask the question, and see the responses. They probably won’t listen to anything we write here if the OP is the messenger.