@thumper1 Good question: are your parents married? Separated? Divorced - that can complicate things. Will you be the only child attending college or do you have siblings who will also be in school? If so, it can help out with FA in years you overlap. As others have said, you need to 1) have an honest discussion w/ both parents 2) run the NPC at schools you’re interested and then 3) Identify a couple of true safeties (probably state schools). Then you can add some other schools, too, if you want - but make sure you’d be fine with your safeties. If medical school is your goal, you don’t want to go into debt for undergrad.