Probably, has been a while since I was in college, but there's plenty of other college girls (and dudes) in this game with similar if not worse situations and each one in a way or another does one of 2 things, handles situation themselves and doesn't care about the others or helps others as much as they get helped
- Sage who's adopted has a pos brother, a nympho mother and schizoid father who are about to break up
- MC who lost his mother to child birth and has been living in poverty (compared to his peers) for all his life
- Quinn who (as far as we know) grew up just with her pusher of a father
- Lily who needs money and as such works as a stripper to be able and afford college
and so on, everyone needs some help at different stages (and it's usually the MC providing it), but they also deal with their shit on their own.
I repeat I'm not indifferent to her situation, but she could bust her ass a bit, does she really want to be indipendent? What's preventing her from doing it? She could join the strippers, or find another job on the side, heck I couldn't afford college (University really) myself, I was working 2 jobs and studying in the spare time which still left me enough time to party btw.
The fact she might be a stereotypical "hot college girl" works until you realize everyone rushes to her support, her girlfriend, her boyfriend/best friend, her brother, the head of the college sorority, the snobby rich girl, the adult friend of the snobby rich girl... They are not just feeling bad for her, one takes her to her adoptive parents to get a loan, the other contacts her legals to find support and the rest sneak into her parents' house to steal documents.