I’ve convinced my daughter to live at home when she goes - it cuts the bill pretty much in half and since she wants to be a physician she’ll have a minimum of 7 years to save. Of course I also managed to convince her to take hunker down and take over a dozen AP courses in HS so I’m hoping she can cut a year off through that also.
“...and take over a dozen AP courses in HS so I’m hoping she can cut a year off through that also.”
There is that option. It’s not a bad one. Another is to hold off for a year or so on entering a 4-year institution and instead taking care of your pre-reqs at a community college.
The credits are cheaper, many of the professors are just as good and these types of credits (math, English, etc) almost alway will transfer when applying to admission to a four year school.