I am currently a community college student who is looking to transfer. I am an American who was raised in Australia. My parents are super conservative and religious: they are Roman Catholic, Republican, Home Schoolers, and preach in your face pro-life. I beg to differ; I am not religious, Democrat, just barely allowed to go to high school, and definitely pro-contraception cause I don't want to get pregnant, nor do I want a bazillion kids. The problem is they are trying to do whatever they can to control where I go to school so I go somewhere with people like them!

When I was in 8th grade, I used to go around bragging about wanting to be an astronaut or Harvard and whatever. My Dad caught me bragging, and he told me "YOUR GOING TOP CHRISTENDOM (a super conservative Catholic college in northern Virginia), SO NO BOY GETS IN YOUR PANTS!" I stopped concentrating on school, so my parents signed me up for Catholic high school. I got in cause they had a dance program I did well in and got scholarship. At the same time, I made friends with a bunch of intellectual atheists/non-religious students and we used to study silly things and then worked together at the last minute on tests. I had straight As. Then they all left to go to the public school, and the only other kids in my grade were troublemakers. They shunned me; called me xenophobic names. Then I was stuck being this girl no one liked cause she had Downs Syndrome. When the dance teacher left town, there was no longer a dance program. I saw no reason to go anymore, so I asked my parents if I could either go to the public school for job certificates or if I could go to the Lutheran school cause they had S.A.T.s; my parents said "NO. WE'RE CATHOLIC. EITHER YOU GO TO THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL OR YOU DO Home School." So I was stuck there and came out with no S.AT.s, a C average, and a certificate which doesn't mean a thing outside the Northern Territory.

Here I am now, I'm living in Virginia, and I applied to 3 colleges to transfer into. I got into a liberal arts college in Virginia, a Catholic college in DC, and (cause my parents wanted me to) a State college in West Virginia. So far, I got a financial aid package from the two earlier schools that give me 1/2 in scholarships, and 1/2 in federal loans. Last night, my Dad and I talked about the schools. If I use the loans that go into my name, I got $9,000 to go to the DC college, $14,000 to go to the Virginia college. The West Virginia school didn't give me any financial aid package at all, and I have to pay $22,000 out of state tuition, but my Dad only wants me to go there! The more I find out about this place, the more I do not want to go it! I tried to call this girl about financial aid and I couldn't understand a bloody thing she was saying and kept going on about her boyfriend, I saw a bunch of students blast this teacher on rate my professor for being "Un-American", and the only clubs they have at this school are like protestants, sororities, republicans (no democrats) and whatever. Then my Dad keeps bugging me about how I should have applied to a conservative Catholic or Christian college cause they give them big schoalrships and hopw righteous they are cause they give big families everything and blah blah blah! I am really scared of their dissaproval; I don't date cause I'm not even allowed to date cause they go to this super strict church. The priest there like really interogated me about my past love life, and this priest is always going on about how evil women who disobey their husbands or father are; I don't talk top people at school cause my Dad said my one friend who got a grant was trash hugging up their money on welfare. They also say rude stuff about me inadvertantly like "young people don't like to work" (I work 4-5 days a week!) or "those selfish women are going to destroy our country cause they don't have 6 kids" (like they do) and worse, my Mom has called even me a "Nazi." Like I am going to like their stupid petty colleges!

Any advice would be hot

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