Congratulations on turning your life around. A big thing will be what is your budget? That will determine what people say.
The schools in your state may actually be better than you think. My son came to Kansas from OOS because he really likes the school. He has has a top notch education in the sciences and has been accepted to vet school in the fall. These schools will be you best option to get in to with your background and they have awesome study abroad programs where I bet you could study abroad, maybe even in South Korea, for a semester. They have a good honors college too.
Once you can give a budget I bet others may give you some OOS options. Just know in state can be pretty great too. Go talk to them about options.