@thumper1 Thanks for the info all of you. I am one of five children. My parents don’t want to sell the house as they feel they’ve invested too much already (about 70,000 of the 150,000 due I believe), and also the fact that they don’t feel they should have to pay for my college at all. Another long story but to make it short as we are a minority family (African-American), when my parents went to college it was easier to guarantee them a full-ride to the in-state college of their choice because they were minorities and if they could have whatever grades they wanted and still get in (this was 20 years ago). Though times have changed and schools aren’t handing out money like they use to, my parents still have that mindset that people should be throwing money at me because of my semi-decent grades.