I’m so sorry you feel like that and understand where you’re coming from.
Your legal status (and your parents) WILL NOT be taken into account at the following colleges AFAIK - they are very selective but will meet 100% financial need without the FAFSA (using forms called CSS).
Amherst
Bates
Brown
Carleton
Case Western Reserve
Columbia
Connecticut College
Cornell
Dartmouth
Denison
Emory
Grinnell
Harvard
Lafayette
Ĺehigh
Macalester
Middlebury
Occidental
Pomona
Rice
Sewanee
Smith
Tufts
UPenn
URichmond
URochester
Vassar
Washington and Lee
Williams
For all these colleges (and there may be more), if you graduated from a US high school, you are an American.
I’m hoping that you were able to maintain your 3.7-3.8 GPA, are holding on to your job and/or are involved on campus. Because these selective colleges are your way to a financially affordable college&a better life.
Hold on. Give Finals your all. Start joining these colleges’ mailing list to get on their radar.
The Ivy League, Williams, Amherst may be out of reach, but you could always apply to 1 or 2. But the rest of the list, while reaches, could be a possibility in addition to UF, UCF, etc. and the application is worth trying since they’d be affordabk
Le if you get in.
Some may have an application process in the early fall where you could start in the spring but most would have a winter/spring deadline (February, March) for enrollment in the Fall.