Ah, I see. Very understandable and I empathize with you. If you'd like, there's always community colleges; you can stay at home while still being able to study what you want in a new environment, and after two years, you can automatically go into any college or university you want if you decide to pursue that (not to mention it's so much cheaper!). You don't necessarily have to go out of town if you don't want to either. You get a taste of independence while not going too far with it. ;P (Oh, and I think they give community colleges too much of a bad rep in the media. There's a CC around here that's actually very open, friendly and have great teachers, so don't listen to the media and instead look at reviews for CCs around where you are, okay?)
And you know, you'd probably do better than you think in getting into colleges and universities, but you won't know unless you try. You're not going to lose anything by not getting in, after all (well, except for some money for application fees. ">.>).
Lol. ^w^