<p>OK…could you please put the facts in ONE post here. First you said no taxes had been filed. Then you said taxes HAD been filed. Then you said you had NO financial aid packages. NOW you say you have some but not others.</p>
<p>OOS public universities typically do NOT give significant institutional need based aid to NON residents. If it were me, and I was you, I would not bet on seeing significant money from UIUC as an OOS student.</p>
<p>You have several schools from which to choose. I have a SCU grad in this family and as Sybbie noted, the deposit is sizable there, plus you also have to do a housing deposit there.</p>
<p>You HAVE aid packages tentative from several schools. Are these unaffordable? Or have you decided not to attend?</p>