There are plenty of schools you can go to for less than $30k. If you’d like Finland, you probably wouldn’t mind the cold of South Dakota, Montana or Wyoming, all available to you for much less than $20k per year. They’d love to have you, would give you scholarships, will let you play in their world class gyms with climbing walls and lazy rivers; would Finland offer that? Prefer to stay in Connecticut? There are schools that cost less than UConn. My nephew attended community college in CT and now is finishing at UConn. He’s no dummy as he was accepted at Brown, NYU, Cornell, and Columbia but couldn’t afford them so took a cheaper route. He lives in a town about 2 hours away and now goes to classes on T-W-Th and works the other days. Pays for it all himself. Taking him a little longer to finish as he’ll be 23 tomorrow and still has a semester to go. It’s okay to do college an ‘untraditional’ way.
People complain that schools cost too much and they’d prefer a free system like Finland or China or Germany, but won’t actually consider campuses in the US that are sort of like Finland or China or Germany - no frills, large class sizes, basic education universities with no services and no sports teams. Some kids are lucky that their parents live in a state that has a good and cheap university system like California, but almost every state has a few options that are very affordable or there are a few states that want OOS students so make attractive offers to all (SD, Wyoming, Montana) or high stats kids (Alabama, PA (Temple), OK, KS).