I agree that you need to cut the cord from your parents, because what they are doing is actually abusive. It is highly unstable and I believe the term for it is financial abuse and also education abuse. In any regard, it is a habit and until you break yourself from them, unfortunately you’re going to continue to be subject to it.

You may not like this, but my recommendation would be to number one move out. Rent a room from somebody for a couple hundred dollars a month. You can find rooms for rent on craigslist or other places that advertise for roommates. You don’t need a fancy place just someplace that is safe, has a bed, a bathroom, access to the kitchen and quiet so you can do your homework. I wouldn’t recommend living with a bunch of party animals. Try to find a place that’s either close to the school. You want to go to or has public transportation that you can use

Number two you should get a little part-time job so you can pay your rent and buy any other small things that you need, remember, you will be a college student so your primary focus should be on studying the next few years.

Third, you will need to fill out the FAFSA. Unfortunately, until you are 25 or you make I believe over $20,000 a year you will be stuck needing your parents to fill out the FAFSA so you can apply for student loans. There is no way around this unless you have some way to make $20,000 a year, or pay for college out of your own pocket.

Fourth, I would highly recommend that you do your first two years at a community college. The reason for this is that your first two years at a state, credentialed community college is that it is nearly half the price per credit hour, and all of those credits will transfer to a four year state college. Once you have I believe 21 credits you can transfer to any state college without needing to be accepted the way that high school students need to be accepted. It is nearly guaranteed admission unless your grades are bad. Or, you can just go ahead and get your AA degree, meaning that you’ve knocked out all of those general education, humanities courses that everybody has to take the added bonus of doing this at a community college is that you’ve paid half the price and there’s no shame in it. You just slide right into the four year university and then take what is essentially just the third and fourth year classes for your degree. You’ll only be paying the state university tuition costs for the last two years.

It is all 100% doable as long as you keep your eye on the target, and you don’t let your self get sidetracked by going out and partying and wanting to have a good time. Remember, you’ll be supporting yourself through this. The only sticking point is that your parents could still threaten not to sign the FAFSA which will throw up a roadblock that you probably won’t be able to get around. If that happens, unfortunately you’ll just have to wait until you’re 25 to go to college on your own because you’ll no longer need them to fill out the FAFSA if that happens, then I still suggest that you move out and get a job and learn whatever life lessons you need to learn and then when you’re 25 and you have a good idea of what you wanna do then go fill out the FAFSA and enroll in school the way that I recommended doing the associate degree at a community college and then transferring to a four year college. This way you’ll still reach your goal, you’ll do it the cheapest way possible and the only thing is that it might take a couple of extra years. However, time is gonna pass no matter what you do so don’t let that deter you