@james0453 In one of your first posts you said you don’t think you will qualify for need-based financial aid due to your family’s high assets. That very well may be true, but it is worth running the Net Price Calculators for some of the schools of interest just to see. Colleges actually weight income much more heavily than assets when determining what a family can pay, and they also don’t count assets in a 401k or IRA, and many won’t count home equity for the family’s primary residence.
So it may be that your family might qualify for some need-based aid. I don’t know if that would make any difference to opening up additional options for you, but it’s probably worth the time to get some estimates via the Net Price Calculator. (Google Net Price Calculator and the name of a college. Or, for a quick option, try www.myintuition.org ). Note that if your parents are divorced or own a small business then the NPCs won’t be as accurate.
Note that all colleges are different, so an estimate for one will not necessarily be the same estimate for another.