ISU and Marquette are much better academically and better for the college experience too, than North Central.
If you calculate
(Tuition+fees +room+ board) - ( scholarships+ grants) =
How much is tOSU?
How does that compare to Marquette and ISU?
What’s your budget (parents’ contribution+ Pell Grant + any state grant +work savings + 3k from summer job + 5.5k Stafford/federal loans)?
I don’t qualify for the pell grants.
Waiting to here financial aid at Ohio state @MYOS1634
North Central College is offering me the cheapest deal at 22k
What’s your budget and your net costs so far at Marquette and ISU?
Basically that’s what tOSU will have to beat 
Not including scholarships. I will do about 20k
Why don’t you like North Central?
Milwaukee is a nice old city. I am a big sports fan and in that regard you have easy access to the Brewers and Bucks and you’re a couple hours from Green Bay (AKA Titletown) and a little over an hour from Madison (Badgers – GO to a football game at Camp Randall; you won’t regret it). You’re also 80 miles from Chicago.
So if Marquette and ISU are tied otherwise, I’d give the nod to Marquette.
My only concern with Marquette is the crime and safety.
North Central is less good academically and in every way compared to ISU and Marquette. It’s just not in the same class of colleges, especially for your major.
Can you list the exact calculations results for Marquette and ISU (+tOSU when you get that info).
Yes I will be glad to share. So basically North Central is not even worth the investment if it is the cheapest?
Marquette wanted 28k waiting on scholarship decision
Unless all others are unaffordable, I wouldn’t consider North Central a good value compared to ISU/Marquette.
Please do the calculation yourself using exactly the items cited - colleges don’t all include the same thing in their letter so that it’s like comparing apples and oranges for costs, and some package loans… 
If Marquette IS 28k before loans and work study it’s a good deal.
Do you have personal savings? A job?
No I’m going to work this summer.
Your threads are difficult to follow. In some you say costs aren’t an issue and in others you talk about scholarships and being low income. How much can your parents pay without borrowing? Is the out-of-pocket costs for any of the schools that accepted you under that amount?
1,000 my parents can pay. With my job after graduation I can afford to pay more.
Can you commute to North Central from home?
I can’t drive
If your parents’ contribution is 1k, how do you end up with 20k being affordable?