<p>uiuc will likely meet your need, they’ll just all be in loans.</p>
<p>scholarship/grants for incoming freshman depend on a few main things:
-efc (if you’re eligible for pell grant, you’re eligible for a lot more awards)
-rigorous high school academics, as in a lot of APs & honors classes, may or may not require you to be pell grant eligible depending on award
-teaching majors
-rotc
-minority status (one of my friends with lesser, but still decent, achievements got a full ride for being a minority)</p>
<p>there are also some small scholarships that are a few hundred dollars each that they might give you for stuff like being a non-smoker, but the ones listed are the big ones. scholarships awarded within individual colleges are few for incoming freshman.</p>
<p>if you have efc above 9000, you’re pretty much out of luck, but there are a lot more opportunities after freshman year to apply for merit based awards through your college/employer/organization. so if you can just barely afford freshman year, make sure you search those scholarships out.</p>
<p>being thrifty with your money can also easily cut up to $2000 off of your COA.</p>