I hate my safety school

As I see it you have these options if you don’t get into other schools with sufficient funding.

  1. Look for the list of colleges with openings in May and hope you can find one where you can get in with sufficient aid.
  2. Go to your safety school, lose the idea that you hate it before you start, and give a concerted effort to make the most of it. If you are truly unhappy you can try to transfer out after a year but do keep in mind that merit aid is hard to come by for transfer students.
  3. Start at a CC and move to a 4 year college. Same comment as above regarding merit aid for transfer students.
  4. Take a gap year, find something worthwhile to do, and reapply next year. Be sure to find a group of schools that appear to be affordable (run net price calculators) and that you would be happy to attend.