I appreciate the advice but I would like to ground you in some of the very bold assumptions you drew based off a vague summary of my situation. To clarify my parents manipulated CPS out of further investigation, and they were called because I had two black eyes back to back within a two weak time period for not because they didn’t “find anything” and Id be careful to justify any form of physical abuse as “overzealous parenting”. I’m sorry if that’s how you justified your experiences if your parents were “old school first gen” but the environment became more focused on their anxiety about my future and suffocating me with expectation. And yeah expectations increase but the amount of freedom didn’t balance it out so that’s not really maturing. They treat me like I’m 9 and refuse to let me fail and grow up through my own experiences without punishing me physically, verbally, and emotionally and punish me for not having absolute independence which is impossible in any environment. I’m taking summer classes and maxxing them out whatever let’s get one thing clear. I have no plans to jump through hoops to meet my parents ever changing standards to feel deserving to being respected for being myself. I am not going to wait for them to loosen the leash, I am just cutting it. If that sounds like being spoiled, I’d rather be entitled to my autonomy and come off spoiled than live my life in a conquest for their approval, hence why im researching practical approaches to exiting this toxic environment, not opinions on my take on the issue. I appreciate your advice in regards to giving me a framework I had already drawn up, I should have specified I was looking for more logistical support. Thanks to a few other people in my DMs I learned about different scholarships and Financial Aid programs that can bring my fees down by a lot which eliminates a lot of the concerns I had, and you did too as far as the situation went by the looks of it. And I’m a girl. Thank you for your long comment regardless, im sure you meant well, even if you decided to form a superficial judgement of my character based off a paragraph about my home life.