Your choices sound okay as long as you stay on the math side of things. There is a lot of way to use stats and research in marketing, and few marketing majors are keen on doing so. My observations across a fairly wide range of people with varying backgrounds and economic opportunities:
1) Don't do CC unless you have no other financial options. Community Colleges vary widely; some have grade inflation while others have wicked curves where the 2 A grades go to non-trad moms who are trying to re-enter the workforce and have nothing else to focus on but school. Some of them tend to be overcrowded and difficult to get your core courses in, and may require more than a 2 year stint. Also, you're shaped by the people you surround yourself with in a profound way that you might not yet appreciate - *generally* (and this is not absolute, but *generally* speaking based on CC's admission profiles vs larger schools), CC students are not academic movers and shakers.
2) Unless you're looking at an elite or semi-elite school (Ivys + MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Chicago), go for scholarships. If a school can't pony up enough, don't go there. Top schools will throw financial aid at people whose parents are not in the top 1-5% of income earners. Don't consign your future to someplace that's good-but-not-elite (e.g., Tufts - a classic example) at around 6% compounding interest because you wanted to go to the best school you could get into. Beneath a fairly high level, go for scholarship money and focus on developing skills your peers don't have and networking. This is easy to do without anxiety when you don't have financial woes waiting for you at the end of the journey.
3) Go to a bigger school. I went to a tiny undergrad due to family circumstances and then went to a law school that was part of a much larger university. All things being equal, I would have preferred the larger university. At 18, I bought into some of the narrative about how you had better access to professors and better interactions with classmates at a small school. At a larger school, the access to professors is the same as small schools (you're still going through TA's and have to make the effort to reach them for the most part), and you're still going to primarily socialize with the same core group. At a large school, you just have more options to try new things. Unless you know yourself well enough to know you absolutely will not be able to function in that environment or will have problems with an addictive personality, go for the larger school.
4) Seconding blackglasses, kill the SAT. If you're not doing stuff like spending $6k to study "poverty" in central America already, you may be off the Ivy track - in which case, every 100 points you can add onto your SAT will translate into thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money at lower-ranked schools. I'd focus more on verbal, too; if you're leaning toward a STEM-ish field, you're probably proficient in math, which is now skewed toward higher scores since the test went from a 1600 to 2400 point scale. I'm not exactly sure why it happened, and I have my theories, but it did. Someone who scored in the mid 600's in math a decade ago would be crushing 700's now. Verbal remains much less skewed. Your mileage may vary.
5) Don't go to law school. Avoid grad school altogether if you can. College is not your endgame. Use it as a time to develop ideas that you can develop once you have the credential of a Bachelor's which, rightly or wrongly, a lot of people will look at you askance without. A college degree does not confer hustle, but it does open doors with people who want to see that you can stick with something and see it to completion over a series of years.
1) Don't do CC unless you have no other financial options. Community Colleges vary widely; some have grade inflation while others have wicked curves where the 2 A grades go to non-trad moms who are trying to re-enter the workforce and have nothing else to focus on but school. Some of them tend to be overcrowded and difficult to get your core courses in, and may require more than a 2 year stint. Also, you're shaped by the people you surround yourself with in a profound way that you might not yet appreciate - *generally* (and this is not absolute, but *generally* speaking based on CC's admission profiles vs larger schools), CC students are not academic movers and shakers.
2) Unless you're looking at an elite or semi-elite school (Ivys + MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Chicago), go for scholarships. If a school can't pony up enough, don't go there. Top schools will throw financial aid at people whose parents are not in the top 1-5% of income earners. Don't consign your future to someplace that's good-but-not-elite (e.g., Tufts - a classic example) at around 6% compounding interest because you wanted to go to the best school you could get into. Beneath a fairly high level, go for scholarship money and focus on developing skills your peers don't have and networking. This is easy to do without anxiety when you don't have financial woes waiting for you at the end of the journey.
3) Go to a bigger school. I went to a tiny undergrad due to family circumstances and then went to a law school that was part of a much larger university. All things being equal, I would have preferred the larger university. At 18, I bought into some of the narrative about how you had better access to professors and better interactions with classmates at a small school. At a larger school, the access to professors is the same as small schools (you're still going through TA's and have to make the effort to reach them for the most part), and you're still going to primarily socialize with the same core group. At a large school, you just have more options to try new things. Unless you know yourself well enough to know you absolutely will not be able to function in that environment or will have problems with an addictive personality, go for the larger school.
4) Seconding blackglasses, kill the SAT. If you're not doing stuff like spending $6k to study "poverty" in central America already, you may be off the Ivy track - in which case, every 100 points you can add onto your SAT will translate into thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money at lower-ranked schools. I'd focus more on verbal, too; if you're leaning toward a STEM-ish field, you're probably proficient in math, which is now skewed toward higher scores since the test went from a 1600 to 2400 point scale. I'm not exactly sure why it happened, and I have my theories, but it did. Someone who scored in the mid 600's in math a decade ago would be crushing 700's now. Verbal remains much less skewed. Your mileage may vary.
5) Don't go to law school. Avoid grad school altogether if you can. College is not your endgame. Use it as a time to develop ideas that you can develop once you have the credential of a Bachelor's which, rightly or wrongly, a lot of people will look at you askance without. A college degree does not confer hustle, but it does open doors with people who want to see that you can stick with something and see it to completion over a series of years.