Obligated to do different major?

dhs911230
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:48:55 +0000

Hi.
So…I’m in a huge dillema.
My parents earn <20,000 a year. and I want to become an engineer.

Most of the colleges I applied to aren’t giving me good financial Aid packages.
The colleges that I can afford to go to do not have very strong engineering programs.
For example, Tulane.

Case Western Reserve is a good school but I am not completely sure If my family could afford it since my sister is following up next year.

The rest of the schools I am waiting on are extremely competitive schools.
Carnegie Mellon CIT is a high match/low reach for me. which is not bad.
But the rest are: Cornell, Stanford, Princeton, Cooper Union.

What do i do?
I know that undergrad doesn’t matter much, but I’d still like to do what I want to do for the rest of my life…