<p>One important issue to consider with Illinois if you’re oos is that it has the lowest percentage of oos students in the Big Ten. The feel of the campus is pretty much an extension of the Chicago suburbs (I live in Chicago). U of I tried to raise the percentage a few years ago, and the pols from Chicagoland pretty much killed the plan doa.</p>
<p>At Ohio State, not only will you find more oos students, but the in-state students are pretty evenly disbursed from Cleveland, Cincy and Columbus with a good portion from elsewhere in the state.</p>