<p>Get yourself emancipated so that your parents can’t use you to get tax breaks. Then you’ll be an independent student and Caltech (which you’d be absolutely nuts not to attend–it is the Mecca of science/math schools) will probably be more generous. I’m sure it’s not as simple as I’m making it sound. Good luck, though–I really hope money doesn’t keep you from going to one of the world’s best schools.</p>