<p>USD is about 50k a year… I currently have no financial aid and never even filled out the fafsa in the past… it just wasn’t necessary. I could be wrong, but this is why I doubted financial need based aid would be an option. Up until very very recently it was quite obviously not needed. </p>
<p>The community college by where I live is known to be a joke. Combine that with a complete and total hate for the idea of living at home and you already have me attending a community college and having to pay room and board somewhere.</p>
<p>My parents say they can pay about 15k/yr, assuming nothing else goes wrong. Additionally, we have no local UC or Cal State, its about 1.5 hours away from home.</p>