I’m from Illinois and I don’t mind small schools but I’d prefer large schools. I have saved 20K so far from tutoring and hope to gain 40K by the end of senior year and my parents have been saving for colleges for a while now and I have had the “college cost” talk with my parents and they’ve been saving for a while now so they’re fine with most of these schools. Both my parents are also computer science majors and both work in tech companies so they are happy I too want to go into computer science which is why they’re happy to pay for the college costs.