<p>This is also why I turned down U of I as an OOS student. They were the only school I was accepted to that did not offer me a scholarship, and they would have turned out to be $12,000 more expensive than the University of Miami, one of the most expensive private universities in the country. (UM gave me a 50% scholarship, so that brought it below U of I.) I ended up going to a state school instead. It still just wasn’t worth the money for either of them, but U of I was the most ridiculous. Who would have thunk it that a PUBLIC school would be my most expensive option for college?</p>