There's other countries where you can actually study for free - Germany for example... We have lots of Chinese students coming here for their education because it's
1) Very good
2) Very cheap
and 3) You can even take courses in English at most universities
Think about it - one semester costs you as a foreign student about 600 or 800$, depending on where you want to study - and I know quite a lot of students who don't have any money, get no scholarship and work all through the year so they can afford to pay rent etc. and they still have free time and can easily do their studies... Oh and another thing: I don't know how it is in America but here we have libraries so you don't need to buy one single book.
But then again I don't think you should get into university because clearly, if you havn't got the wits to figure out where you could study you don't belong in one anyway...