<p>Financially, that would definitely be better. If you kept up your performance at said in-state school, I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to get in as a transfer. This is something you should probably contact UIUC about, though.</p>
<p>Are you sure there’s no financial aid available?</p>
<p>I think you can be pretty confident internship-wise. I’m speaking from experience here (I’m a CS major at a school where the CS situation is similar to that of UIUC)…I know tons of people with internships like that.</p>