Berkeley or Urbana Champaign?
tokenadult: My overwhelming bias when I give advice on this subject of choosing colleges is to go as far away from home as possible, because that causes personal growth. (I didn't get that personal growth until AFTER college, when I lived overseas.) BUT, money does matter, and you are talking about a substantial money difference.Now let's be clear: are you sure that you must take a financial hit to major in computer science at UIUC? Or can you major in business and still take quite a few CS courses anyway?What is the assurance you can get into CS at Berkeley at all? I thought that was an "impacted" major there.Good luck deciding. If the money were closer, it would be a no-brainer to go to Berkeley, but the money is not close, so there is much to be said for staying with Illinois.