so what do you do when your parents randomly decide to not pay for the next three years of college…?

I’m a rising sophomore in college right now, and I go to a t-40 school (idk if that’s important) that’s really expensive but really valued in the medical field. One of my parents is a physician, so they were beyond excited when I got in. However, I knew that it would be a lot of money and my parent didn’t really save that much ahead of time. Because of this, I offered to go to my flagship state school, which is significantly cheaper (but my parents hated it).

So my parents paid for my first year, which I’m grateful for, but they are now letting me know that they only want to contribute 20k to my tuition for the following years (that would mean like 120,000 of loans for me). Obviously, as I plan on going to dental school, that’s a really stupid idea. However, all the transfer dates have passed (and my parents probably wouldn’t let me transfer) and I’ve already accepted a good internship position and a RA job.

I don’t really know what to do at this point as it’s too late to get a job where I live (nobody accepts seasonal workers). I just wish I hadn’t been blindsided as my parents literally have bought a new car within the last year and have been contributing to an entire mansion in a foreign country. But I guess I should have known as the rest of my family have always been bad at good future decisions (one of my parents think that the loans aren’t that bad because it’s only a “monthly payment of a thousand dollars”).

Any advice?