<p>Ah, well that does explain a lot. Might have been nice if you had included all that up front, since you can see how it sounds to 95% of the people out here. Your school’s system seems very unusual. Anyway, at least it all makes some sense now.</p>
<p>So if your parents don’t like English, and they don’t like business, what will they pay for? Just engineering or something like that? In any case, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT take out huge loans to go to a school like Chicago. I cannot even begin to tell you what a ginormous mistake that would be. There have been a ton of stories lately about kids having loans ranging from $85,000 (Tufts or Brandeis I forget which, an English major) to $275,000 (NYU Stern business school) and they are sucking wind big time. With your record you should be able to go to a perfectly good school for little to no money of your own. Do some research, on here and elsewhere. But I don’t care if it is Harvard, you should never graduate with more than about $25,000 in loans tops, and with you wanting to be an English major that is even more of an imperitive. Don’t fall for the prestige trap over common financial sense.</p>