<p>Need some help/suggestion. Indiana is my safety and I have already received a 10,000 dollar a year scholarship with being direct admit into the business program. With the current state of my applications to other schools, I have lost faith in getting accepted into anything. So I most likely will be deciding between my safeties: Indiana and UIUC. I most likely will go to the school that offers me the most money; However, the Kelley School of Business is much better than the one at UIUC. With the scholarship I have received at the moment the schools are the same price. Is there any way to get any more scholarship money because I think going to Indiana would be more beneficial. I am aware that I am getting the biggest package for being an OOS and I wont receive any financial aid due to my own current financial situation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>There are previous threads discussing about these two schools. Many top Illinois students came to IU because they were DA to Kelley. I am not sure if IU is much better than UIUC. But, are you DA to UIUC’s business program? Hutton offers some limited scholarship. You may get $1-2K. I doubt if Kelley gives any. If you have really high stats, ACT >~34, you may have a chance for $6K (OOS) from Metz. Visit both and good luck to you. </p>
<p>Sadly, my stats are not that high. Will be visiting them on the direct admit day for Indiana and whenever I get around to seeing UIUC. Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Dont forget your local scholarship opportunities. 
Good luck!</p>
<p>Ill have to look into that.</p>
<p>ajrgcpro, its seems likely that UIUC and IU will cost about the same for you given your IU scholarship. Since you are thinking about majoring in finance/econ, I think IU would be a much better choice than UIUC. Chicago area students, it seems to me, have pretty much been the backbone of the Investment Banking Workshop since I started paying attention to the IBW about six years ago. Many of those students got coveted summer internships on Wall Street are in investment banking now. Some probably could not get into UIUC because it is so tough to do, given that it UIUC has such a gigantic pool of affluent and high achieving high school students from around Chicago and that the state of Illinois has such a large population, too. I think a lot of Illinois hs students, though, got accepted to both schools and the combination of the incredible finance major opportunities at IU and the ten thousand or so annual scholarships make IUB a much more attractive option than UIUC. </p>
<p>You might also do research on how much you could earn from one or two summer financial internships for the types of positions you could get through Kelley compared to UIUC. The difference could be significant.</p>
<p>I have never heard that much about UIUC Finance, I had always heard they were Accounting oriented.</p>
<p>They are definitely accounting oriented, but I applied to it as a safety. However, the more read into the business school at u of I the more I am leaning towards indiana. But I have yet to see either school lol. </p>