Scholarship help

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Hi ! I'm a junior in high school and I'm already looking heavily into applying for colleges as well as how to pay for them since I'm going to end up needing scholarships. The only issue is that a lot of scholarships I'm looking into won't provide as much money because my parents make a decent bit of money - we're comfortably middle class. The only issue with this is that they cannot afford to make the expected contributions due to the fact that both my parents as well as myself and my brother have chronic health issues (my father has teeth issues and severe arthritis, my mother has thyroid, iron, and pain issues as well as a history of skin cancer, my brother is diabetic and has a bad knee, and I struggle with chronic pain, low iron, endometriosis, hyperhidrosis severe enough to require regular procedures, joint issues, and a messed up back among other things) and are constantly cycling through new or temporary issues - with many of us having regular procedures, expensive medications and medical supplies, and expensive hospitalizations, and all these medical bills add up meaning we can afford to pay them, but not to pay for my college. Is there any way to explain this when applying for college and ask that their income not be considered so heavily? Thank you!