@DmitriR thank you. honestly i owe to to my older brother who did a cs degree at Queens College for 4 years and in the summer of his 3rd year (with the constant pushing to apply for internships from my dad) got a internship at boeing which led to the job he has been in for the past year and a half with a very good salary (he graduated last june). He now has no debt and is making a decent living in St. Louis while his friends are constantly complaining to him about his debt. When he heard i got into UIUC he was really happy for me because of the amount of recruiting opportunities i would have and the great education i would get ( Queens college gets few to zero recruits and doesn’t do engineering as background). when he saw how much i would have to take in loans he told me to stay as far away but to not go to a school like UIUC just killed me since it was a small reach but i guess it really makes the most sense to go to stony or my other options