Just to make sure it's clear, Mom can give you permission to live at school, on your own, with a friend, etc., for the purpose of going to college, without having to uproot the rest of the family and without your needing to be formally emancipated.

I have told countless children looking for emancipation (I know you don't think of yourself as a child but legally you are one) that until they are 18, they live where their parents say they live. If they say that you live on your own at school, then you live on your own at school. You do not meet the requirements for emancipation but your mother can give you permission to live independently.