first of all, i want to say i'm real glad to hear you want to go back to school mike. for some reason, a lot of people i know are deciding that now and have all these goals they want to attain. kind of makes my life situation seem easy and stupid. ok anyways, as for what you want to study you can pick practically anything cuz as someone else said, you can change your major and one road leads to many others. so i don't think you have to worry about that. as for the money sitch, yea that always sucks but claiming independent does help. most practically everyone i know who's done that has gotten financial aid. and lastly for school, i think you should try for rutgers. it's not as expensive as another school with its same academic reputation, plus you'll know a lot of people there good luck.