If you're a smart kid and you have the ability to take a flight aptitude test, you can always go Warrant Officer right out of High School for the Army and fly rotary. I was accepted as an Army Aviation Officer for the UH-60 back in the day and I know the Warrant Officer program turns out great pilots. 18 years old and straight to Warrant Officer Candidate School and then Flight School. It's not easy to get through it, but if you're squared away and determined you can make it.

https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-j...-officers.html
(hopefully we're allowed to post links on here?)

I know this isn't fixed wing, so I'm just throwing it out there. But it's something to consider doing in lieu of college. You'll get to serve your country for a bit and get paid to attend flight training and be a dang helo pilot. When you've done that for a bit, you can transfer to reserve/national guard and do a Rotary Transition program into a commercial fixed wing with a regional.