when you cant afford to go to college, or you are just compltely lost within yourself(not disciplaned at all) and if there is seems to be an oppurtunity to find your self( to be diciplaned) and go to college, and dont worry abt soo many financial issues, WHY NOT GO? and on a second note, its there choice, why are you so bothered about it. Has it affected you somehow? parents arent dictators, sometimes they need to let their children do what they want.